Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

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.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.

Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack

When I want to check out how my life's been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.