If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction… — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in… — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers,… — Solomon Burke Copy Share Image
