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.

Sitting in the morning sun, I’ll be sitting when the evening comes.
OTIS REDDING

Come Evening Morning Myself Sun
This loneliness won’t leave me alone.
OTIS REDDING

Alone Loneliness
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

Business Entertainment Focus Person Yourself
I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
OTIS REDDING

Country Love Myself People Weather
When I go into the studio, I’m strictly for business. I don’t like any fooling around in the studio.
OTIS REDDING

Business Fools Myself Studio
Sittin’ here resting my bones, this loneliness won’t leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home.
OTIS REDDING

Alone Bone Home Leaving Myself Rest Travel
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-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
OTIS REDDING

Country Farm Horse Leave Love Myself Sing

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