Wilson Pickett Quotes

#1. So why must it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty? Why must it hurt him and make him cynical and sad and untrusting?

Anne Rice

#2. We turned to find Morpheus standing there with enough rage in his black eyes to send the Devil packing for heaven.

A.G. Howard

#3. When we will learn to see, not you and me, but only we, then there will be peace in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#4. The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

Nicole Kidman

#5. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.

Douglas Adams

#6. I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while.

Jose Carreras

#7. It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

Ayn Rand

#8. It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.

Michael Gira

#9. Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Wilson Pickett

#10. I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

Wilson Pickett

#11. When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

Neil Peart

#12. I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it.

Wilson Pickett

#13. Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

Henry Blodget

#14. I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.

Wilson Pickett

#15. Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

Jon Landau

#16. I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!

Percy Sledge

#17. I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

Eddie Floyd

#18. Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

Billy Bob Thornton

#19. If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

Andy Serkis

#20. First you harmonize, then you customize.

Wilson Pickett

#21. There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

Bill Stone

#22. This novel has it all
mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and
most important
characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.

Jonis Agee

#23. Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

#24. Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

Wilson Pickett

#25. MANY STILL consider it an accident that Nazi ideology centered around antisemitism and that Nazi policy, consistently and uncompromisingly, aimed at the persecution and finally the extermination of the Jews. Only

Hannah Arendt

#26. Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.

Wilson Pickett