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Vote: | Ain't it weird how a person's life is so boring they gotta wait on you to get up to call you and then hang up? Well, I got my day goin' on now. I said, damn I wouldn't mind if they at least said hello, but just to call me at four in the morning to breathe down the phone. |
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Vote: | But people's always callin' me crazy, so I'm gonna go with my people. |
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Vote: | Damn! I love music, man. I'm not even workin' I'm partyin'! |
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Vote: | Don't let the business side, which is the cold side, dictate all your God-given talents for a dollar. It ain't worth it. |
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Vote: | I ain't tripping no more. |
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Vote: | I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s. |
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Vote: | I know what I do and to keep from getting bored of it you gotta keep explorin. |
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Vote: | I like it more when an artist take my song and don't try to do me. When they just take it to a whole 'nother level. |
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Vote: | I like to see it when people can grow up but not grow out. |
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Vote: | I start thinking of Marvin, Otis and all these people. The generation's gone. |
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Vote: | I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. |
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Vote: | I was talking to Ronald Isley and I was telling him they'll eat till they make themselves sick. Man, he takes requests and stays on stage for four hours. |
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Vote: | I'll tell you a big secret. I used to be paranoid about everything, but especially about my voice. |
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Vote: | I'm not going to go out there weighing 900 pounds. |
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Vote: | I've had a pretty good career but I can't get a record company now. I don't see too much money from any of the records. I was very angry about that but I couldn't carry the anger around-it was killing me. Everybody has to reach their own destiny and I don't waste no time on negative energy. |
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Vote: | If anybody rap, I did. I used to talk on all of my records; I didn't used to call it anything but telling people how I felt before I start singing. It's like in the doo-wop days; I came up through that. What if this generation heard that? They would think it was crazy. |
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Vote: | If I didn't love it, I wouldn't do it, because the business side of it is so crazy. One minute they want you, next they don't. |
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Vote: | If you think things are going great and you say, man I gotta great job, you just gotta raise. The next minute, your momma dies. Life plays games with you. |
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Vote: | It was the people who made me see myself as a performer; I never saw myself that way. I'm better sitting down in a dark room with a guitar on my lap, vibing about some love affair that went wrong. |
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Vote: | It's a sad thing but I haven't heard from Sly in many years. |
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Vote: | It's not just that the singers don't know how to do it any more; sometimes I feel like the audience don't know either. I mean, I want them to make me feel a part of it. |
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Vote: | Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back. |
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Vote: | Man, if he didn't like something you did on stage, he would whack you across the head with a drumstick in the tour bus. James Brown would tell you. You'd have so much respect for him it was like fear. |
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Vote: | Me being from the old school, I would not say bitch on a record. I couldn't face my mother if I did. |
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Vote: | Mick and Keith write such great songs now. They were learning then. They couldn't have been who they are today if they didn't start speakin' out about their life and what they had to say about it. You can sing somebody else's story, but you can't live nobody else's story as well as they live it. |
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Vote: | My father had seven brothers and eight sisters, and they all had weird names. One's name was West, and another was East. |
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Vote: | My father used to rehearse us so much, he just became the boss. Now I can see I was blessed. He would be so tired from working in that steel mill that we kids knew we only had a couple of hours to hang with him before he fell asleep. |
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Vote: | One thing that's good about music: anybody can entertain as long they really into it and they got somet'in' to say. The only thing I kick is how you say it and the way you say it at. |
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Vote: | People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them. |
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Vote: | Sometimes when you're down for the count and don't really feel like getting' up, you have to stay around your peers and the people who love your music or you feel like you're thrown out. |
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Vote: | These days, I don't say anything to other performers because I don't want to get cussed out. |
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Vote: | We came up very poor. My kids have had a much better life than I'd ever thought of livin'. |
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Vote: | What R&B artist do you know who's changed their name? Gladys Knight will be Gladys Knight till she dies. |
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Vote: | When someone wanna make music wit' you, how could you turn that down? I know some of my constituents are like that, but's dat's dey problem. |
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Vote: | You can't go on stage loaded and then stand backstage and get loaded again. The best way to do it is not to do it at all. |
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Vote: | You gotta chill on the profanities, you don't tell people you're pissed off, they gonna know it anyway, especially if you're gonna broadcast it all over the world. I just didn't come from that kind of school. |
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Vote: | You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion. |
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Vote: | You know I just did a record with Snoop Dogg! Yeah! It's great. |
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Vote: | You know you always need a spark in life and in music, period. |
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Bobby Dwayne Womack (born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on March 4, 1944), is an African-American soul/R&B singer, guitarist and songwriter, most famous during the 1970s and 1980s.
Taking after their father, who sang gospel music, Bobby Womack and his brothers formed their own group. Sam Cooke took an interest in the Womack Brothers, and they recorded for Cooke's SAR record label in the early 1960s. Renamed the Valentinos, and encouraged by Cooke to go in a more secular and commercial direction, they scored a hit with Womack's "It's All Over Now" in 1964; the Rolling Stones' version of the song became a major hit, earning Womack generous royalty payments.
Sam Cooke died in late 1964; Womack married Cooke's widow, Barbara, a short time later, creating something of a scandal. As a session guitarist, Womack worked at producer Chips Moman's American Studios in Memphis, and played on recordings by Joe Tex and Box Tops. Until this point, around 1967, he had had little success as a solo artist, but at American he began to record a string of classic soul-music singles including the 1968 "What Is This" (his first chart hit), "It's Gonna Rain" and "More Than I Can Stand," all of which featured his elegant, understated rhythm-guitar work and his impassioned vocals. During this period he became known as a songwriter, contributing many songs to the repertoire of Wilson Pickett; these include "I'm in Love" and "I'm a Midnight Mover."
After moving to the United Artists label in the early '70s, he released the album Communication, and on an album with guitarist Gabor Szabo introduced his song "Breezin'," which later became a hit for George Benson. He also became known for his interesting taste in cover versions, essaying Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin' " as well as "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" and James Taylor's "Fire and Rain.'" Perhaps his most well-known work from this period is as guitarist on Sly & the Family Stone's 1971 There's a Riot Goin' On.
He continued to have hits into the '70s; these include "Lookin' for a Love" (a remake of his 1962 Valentinos single), "Across 110th Street," "Woman's Gotta Have It" (covered by James Taylor in 1976), "You're Welcome, Stop on By," and the masterful "Daylight." All are excellent examples of burnished yet gritty 1970s soul music, and reveal a pop-music sensibility akin to that of Marvin Gaye or Curtis Mayfield.
Bobby Womack's 1981 album The Poet was a surprise hit and contained the hit single "If You Think You're Lonely Now." Film director Quentin Tarantino used "Across 110th Street" (which, in a different version, had been the title song of the 1972 movie) in the opening sequence of his 1997 Jackie Brown. He continues to record and to make live appearances, and has certainly earned his place in the pantheon of great popular musicians.
One of Womack's most popular singles "If You Think You're Lonely Now", was covered in 1994 by K-Ci Hailey, a notable admirer of Womack's work. The song is referenced in Mariah Carey's song "We Belong Together," which hit #1 in June 2005. Carey sings, "I can't sleep at night /
When you are on my mind / Bobby Womack's on the radio / Singing to me: 'If you think you're lonely now.'"
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
*"What Is This" b/w "What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Is Gone)" (1968)
*"More Than I Can Stand" b/w "Arkansas State Prison" (1970)
*"Everybody's Talkin' " b/w "Something" (1970)
*"Across 110th Street" b/w "Hang On In There" (1973)
*"Daylight" b/w "Trust Me" (1976)
*Fly Me to the Moon (1969)
*My Prescription (1970)
*BW Goes C&W (1974)
*Safety Zone (1975)
*The Poet (1981)
*Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection (1993)
...(more on Wikipedia)
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