Zitat des Tages von Merry Clayton:
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 at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
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.
You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.
I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
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 was fun.
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 with being Curtis' wife. That was very important to me back then, and that's always important to a young lady from New Orleans. That's our upbringing: to be a wonderful wife and mother first.
I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
