Otis Redding Song Quotes and Instagram Captions

These Otis Redding quotes from songs capture the essence of love, life, and longing, offering glimpses into the soul of a legendary artist.

Otis Redding Quotes on Love and Longing

I’ve been loving you too long to stop now, my love is growing stronger as you become a habit to me.
You were tired, and your love is growing cold, my love is growing stronger as our affair, affair grows old.
These arms of mine, they are lonely, lonely and feeling blue; they are yearning, yearning from wanting you.
If you would let them hold you, oh, how grateful I will be; these arms of mine, they are burning, burning from wanting you.
I need your arms, loving arms to hold me tight, and I-I-I need your tender lips to hold me, tell me when I’m alright now.
Just be my little woman, just be my lover, oh, I need me somebody, somebody to treat me right.
Love is their only happiness, and it’s all so easy, all you gotta do is try a little tenderness.
You’ve got to squeeze her, don’t tease her, never leave her; you’ve got to hold her and rub her softly, try a little tenderness.
I still want you to stay, I still love you anyway, I don’t want you to ever leave, girl, you just satisfy me.
That’s how strong my love is, I’ll be the weeping willow drowning in my tears, and you can go swimming when you’re here.

Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun, I’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ come, watching the ships roll in, and then I watch ’em roll away again.
I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away, I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time.
Look like nothing’s gonna change, everything still remains the same, so I guess I’ll remain the same.
Sittin’ here resting my bones, and this loneliness won’t leave me alone.
It’s two thousand miles I roamed, just to make this dock my home.
She has her grief and care, but the soft words, they are spoke so gentle, it makes it easier, easier to bear.
Nobody knows what I feel inside, all I know, I walked away and cried.
These eyes of mine, they don’t fool me, why did he hold you so tenderly?
I’ve got dreams, dreams to remember, honey, I saw you there last night, another man’s arms holding you tight.
Don’t make me suffer, don’t let me, I’ve got dreams to remember.