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16 quotes by Merry Clayton

Merry Clayton (born December 25, 1948) is an American soul and gospel singer (both solo and back-up), and an actress. She has provided a number of back-up vocal tracks to songs recorded by major performing artists during the 1960s, most notably with her duet with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter." Merry is featured in 20 Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary about background singers and their contributions to the...
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I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on... →

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I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

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My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers... →

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I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.

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I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Curtis Amy. Career was fine, but I was enthralled... →

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I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to... →

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Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it... →

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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.

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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.

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My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

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My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

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Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

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You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

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