Only the Strong Survive (2002)

Wilson Pickett: Self

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• Wilson Pickett : I got him now! I got him now, boy! I knew I'd get him!

• Wilson Pickett : I'm one of the best dressed entertainers out there. Yeah, tell them its nothin' for me, there's nothin' for me to pay over a thousand dollars for a shirt. Right.

• Wilson Pickett : Diana Ross was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen in my life. And we used to ride in the station wagon with her. Turned her around, facing the cars, back in the back seat. And we had the other girls up in the front, you know, in the Falcon. We had this big station wagon. With Diana Ross in the back, facing the cars. Yeah. And, now, Diana Ross is one of the most beautiful women on the face of the earth.

  Roger Friedman : What happened?

  Wilson Pickett : How the hell would I know!

  Roger Friedman : Did you think she was going to be such a big star?

  Wilson Pickett : No, she was a natural.

  Roger Friedman : She was a natural?

  Wilson Pickett : Yeah. Nobody had a voice like Diana Ross and she knew how to use it.

• Roger Friedman : Would you say Aretha Franklin is the female Wilson Pickett?

  Wilson Pickett : No.

  Roger Friedman : No?

  Wilson Pickett : And I ain't the female Aretha Franklin either.