Percy Sledge Quotes

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

Blues was made for the recessed.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

McCullers is one of those rare writers who remembers what childhood is like. Not incidents, which anyone can recall, but states of mind, which are so difficult to recreate.

When I was a kid this is what I was listening to on my car radio - Lowell Fulsom singing 'Tramp.'

Growing up in the projects, I've been around music all my life. Marvin Gaye, everything man.

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.