Otis Williams quote: "We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look."

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took ...
OTIS WILLIAMS

I'm the glue that holds everything together.
OTIS WILLIAMS

The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
OTIS WILLIAMS

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talent...
OTIS WILLIAMS

It's a pleasure and honor to be here, knowing what y'all have been through.
OTIS WILLIAMS

Motown is the soundtrack of our lives. These are songs we have always wanted to do, and now, happily...
OTIS WILLIAMS

It's a terrible situation, but you just have to roll with the punches. I don't worry about it. There...
OTIS WILLIAMS

The Tempts have always been known for great lead singers. Today we have three of the greatest leads ...
OTIS WILLIAMS

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented t...
OTIS WILLIAMS

That's one of the things the Tempts have always been, experimental. We decided ... to sit down and c...
OTIS WILLIAMS

Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took ...
OTIS WILLIAMS

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'M...
OTIS WILLIAMS

I'm not impressed with the state of music and the lyrics, guys on stage grabbing their Johnson. That...
OTIS WILLIAMS

[There isn't much anyone can do about pump-related pain except grin and bear it, said Otis Williams ...
OTIS WILLIAMS

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arr...
OTIS RUSH

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
OTIS RUSH

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys th...
OTIS RUSH

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
OTIS RUSH

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then...
OTIS RUSH

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
OTIS RUSH

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, ...
OTIS RUSH

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
OTIS RUSH

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.
OTIS RUSH

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
OTIS RUSH

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it wa...
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-a...
OTIS REDDING

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series o...
OTIS REDDING

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can'...
OTIS REDDING

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fam...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen P...
OTIS BLACKWELL

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&...
OTIS BLACKWELL

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I g...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.
OTIS BLACKWELL

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwrite...
OTIS BLACKWELL

Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a ...
JOHNNY OTIS

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking becau...
CARRE OTIS

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doc...
CARRE OTIS

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise i...
JAMES OTIS

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I cou...
JOHNNY OTIS

My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from t...
CARRE OTIS

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, a...
JAMES OTIS

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. O...
CARRE OTIS

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscie...
JAMES OTIS

A man's house is his castle.
JAMES OTIS

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invit...
OTIS BLACKWELL

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care litt...
JAMES OTIS

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the une...
CARRE OTIS

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
CARRE OTIS

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
CARRE OTIS

When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performi...
CARRE OTIS

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until ...
JAMES OTIS

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there...
CARRE OTIS

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather t...
CARRE OTIS

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role ...
CARRE OTIS

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get th...
CARRE OTIS

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can...
CARRE OTIS

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially durin...
CARRE OTIS

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
CARRE OTIS

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
CARRE OTIS

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't w...
CARRE OTIS

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to la...
CARRE OTIS

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the ...
CARRE OTIS

Taxation without representation is tyranny.
JAMES OTIS

This is a true brotherhood of wrestling people here in the Valley. We'll handle this situation and d...
OTIS DOWDY

[Lee] values how much he was provided exposure early on by Bill Darden and others.
CLARENCE OTIS

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some peop...
CARRE OTIS

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the her...
JAMES OTIS

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into...
JAMES OTIS

That's frightening and, frankly, it scares the hell out me. We're going to have an epidemic of lung ...
OTIS BRAWLEY

The things we've done might look frantic, but they are calculated moves. Our objective is to win a c...
OTIS SMITH

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope o...
CARRE OTIS

The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music...
OTIS TAYLOR

Taxation without representation is tyranny
JAMES OTIS

We felt it was important to do something that really reflected Joe's passion.
CLARENCE OTIS

I lie silently in bed
With pleasant pillow under head—
Exploring truths of a long lost e...
T.D. OTIS

People like Smokey Bones, but they don't come with the visit frequency that we would like. We think ...
CLARENCE OTIS

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make thei...
CARRE OTIS

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to...
CARRE OTIS

I only served with them 64 days as a mechanic in Italy,
JAMES OTIS

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little f...
JAMES OTIS

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there i...
CARRE OTIS

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instrume...
JAMES OTIS

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited m...
OTIS BLACKWELL

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acre...
CARRE OTIS

My costume wasn't quite as sexy as hers. She caught me completely off guard. I didn't know who this ...
MARK OTIS

We had outstanding financial results despite some difficult prior year comparisons.
CLARENCE OTIS

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn...
CARRE OTIS

Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't
GEORGE OTIS

I kept calling to try and go out with her. Her mother kept screening the calls.
MARK OTIS

I could not have made it without the support from the community and family. I still miss my wife, bu...
LARRY OTIS

It is all about how God can use my abilities for the future. It is God using me. I'm just a tool.
LARRY OTIS

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers...
CARRE OTIS

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similariti...
CARRE OTIS

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity an...
CARRE OTIS

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
CARRE OTIS

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems t...
CARRE OTIS

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider th...
JAMES OTIS

[Brawley blames poor access to health care and lower standards of care for black women.] While we ha...
OTIS BRAWLEY

Buy my records so I can buy a Porsche!
OTIS TAYLOR

There's no need to panic, and this could actually make our team stronger in the long run. We have to...
OTIS SMITH

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
MERCY OTIS WARREN

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does n...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian t...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the bl...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military op...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large an...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
MERCY OTIS WARREN

Before this address to my countrymen is closed, I beg leave to observe, that as a new century has da...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
MERCY OTIS WARREN

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of t...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian ...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain,...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings o...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.
HARRISON GRAY OTIS

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally ...
MERCY OTIS WARREN

[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's confusions
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done...
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER

I agree that it's a shame some books have to suffer ratings that clearly are invalid. However I can'...
OTIS Y. CHANDLER

As we clean up and restore these homes, it would lessen the involvement necessary by the Camden Poli...
REV OTIS SCOTT

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.
DR. J. OTIS YODER

Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom...
DR. J. OTIS YODER

How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land b...
DR. J. OTIS YODER

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS

We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS

Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS

I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS

According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS

I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS

And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS

We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

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We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

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