Solomon Burke Quotes

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• The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
• Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
• Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.
• Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
• One of us is chained, none of us is free.
• I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
• Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
• Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
• As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
• I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
• 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, I'd…
• I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
• I want to be a soul singer.
• My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and…
• We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show…
• I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
• We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that…
• I should have my own publishing companies.
• The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
• We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era…

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