You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you…

- Otis Redding

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I ow…

- Otis Redding

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

- Otis Redding

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteent…

- Otis Redding

When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

- Otis Redding

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

- Otis Redding

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

- Otis Redding

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

- Otis Redding

Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at …

- Otis Redding