Wilson Pickett Quotes

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Wilson Pickett

Profession : Singer

Birth : March 18, 1941

Joe Stubbs was very jealous of me, especially after 'I Found a Love.' We'd be on stage and he'd lay traps for me, make me look bad.

Wilson Pickett

If you leave God and go to the devil, you're going to go to hell.

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I live in Virginia alone, and sometimes there's too much time to think. So you turn on the TV, but sometimes that don't do, so you turn the music on, and sometimes that don't do, and so you try and write a song, and sometimes that don't do... So you just take it as it comes.

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When I started buying my mother all these homes, like a second home in Kentucky, where I moved most of my family, they began to rely on my wallet.

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I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that.

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The R&B will always prevail. It will always last. The blues will always last.

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You see, I wanted to sing gospel, but I wanted to make me some money, too.

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If you get the disco or rap format on the radio, an R&B record doesn't fit, because it will break up the mood.

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We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway.

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The older songs were better songs, because they had lyrics with a story to tell. Aretha and Otis told stories.

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I took a long rest period. I didn't know heads or tails of what anybody wanted; it seemed as if R&B had been put on the shelf.

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I don't do disco.

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I think people are entitled to have a new album by Wilson Pickett in their homes every year.

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I don't want to stay in the graveyard era of music.

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When I make a record, I want to use some electronics, although I still want to keep things pretty basic.

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I don't want to die on the stage.

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Singing like I do is very hard, and as you get older, it's getting harder and harder all the time.

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I don't bother anybody, but I don't let people walk over me.

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I'd lived in New Jersey for 30 years. That was long enough. It's too crowded up there, and it's a very dangerous place to live. There's a whole lotta crime.

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One of the secretaries at Atlantic Records caught me pinching one of the other secretaries on the butt one morning. She said, 'My, you sure are wicked.'

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