Quotes Solomon Burke

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability....

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little bet...

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right a...

He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we c...

Here I am, a Black artist rebelling against the record compa...

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front ...

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, becau...

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my ...

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive....

I learned a great deal from Atlantic. Atlantic taught me how...

I should have my own publishing companies....

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a r...

I want to be a soul singer....

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

I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me....

If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Blac...

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess labe...

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Cur...

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

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a...

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were...

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and wo...

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during tha...

We started the publicity, we started moving in the same dire...

We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but ...