Otis Williams
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"Otis Williams" is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is best known as the founder and last original surviving member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform.

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We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.

The Tempts have always been known for great lead singers. Today we have three of the greatest leads in the proud history of the group.

It's a terrible situation, but you just have to roll with the punches. I don't worry about it. There's nothing you can do about it.

That's one of the things the Tempts have always been, experimental. We decided ... to sit down and come up with using some great songs from the famous Motown catalog and put our spin on some iconic kind of songs that have turned out to be such monster standards in their own right.

It's a pleasure and honor to be here, knowing what y'all have been through.

[There isn't much anyone can do about pump-related pain except grin and bear it, said Otis Williams of Benicia.] It's a terrible situation, but you just have to roll with the punches, ... I don't worry about it. There's nothing you can do about it.

Motown is the soundtrack of our lives. These are songs we have always wanted to do, and now, happily, we have had a chance to do them.

I'm not impressed with the state of music and the lyrics, guys on stage grabbing their Johnson. That's why people still cling to (old) Motown. It's music they can listen to with their kids.

I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.