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I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

— Benjamin Booker

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

— Jamie xx

If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?

— Taj Mahal

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

— Jimmy Page

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

When I listen to most forms of music, in their most raw and pure, it all has a punk edge to me, like Lead Belly, Jimmie Rodgers, Otis Redding or Nirvana.

— Langhorne Slim

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

— Nick Lowe

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

— Joey Ramone

In the late '70s I started to search for the perfect sound - whatever that might be, before that I was mainly interested in drugs, insanity and the rock'n'roll lifestyle.

— Lou Reed

✗Opposing Perspectives

I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.

— William Bell