But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do. — 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
