Quotes from Wilson Pickett

Sometimes it's more than you can bear to be on the road and take care of all that other stuff.

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

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.

If I wasn't in show business I don't know what I would have been - a wanderer or something, you know? But God blessed me with the talent and the chance. I knocked on enough doors, and this is what I can give myself credit for.

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

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

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

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.

People like me and Aretha Franklin and Joe Tex, we had predicted that inside of five years disco would be all over, that it was just a fad. But we didn't anticipate being knocked out of the pocket altogether.

Detroit, my lord, what a place.

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

I don't do disco.

I perform as much as I can, to the extent I don't want to sell myself out.

If I'm not getting played on the radio and I'm not making any money, I have nothing to lose by telling the truth.

I used to get a lot of fan mail.

You can talk about all the great guitarists you want Jimi Hendrix or whoever but as far as I'm concerned, Duane Allman is the best. No one ever played like him.

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.'

Me, I'm very happy with the fruit I've gotten out of my career.

There are no Soul singer Wilson Pickett singers in disco.

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

All my ideas have blown away with the wind.

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

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

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.