"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. 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 heard somebody else do it."

(Otis Redding, nome completo Otis Ray Redding Jr., cantante; Dawson, 9 settembre 1941 – Madison, 10 dicembre 1967)