Time Quote by Solomon Burke

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

— Solomon Burke

One of us is chained, none of us is free.

— Solomon Burke

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

— Solomon Burke

I should have my own publishing companies.

— Solomon Burke

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

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

— Solomon Burke

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

— Solomon Burke

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

— Solomon Burke

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

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

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

— Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

— Solomon Burke