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Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
~ Solomon Burke
Ability
Apollo
Gospel
Me
Records
Signed
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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
~ Solomon Burke
Better
Grow
Learn
Life
Little
Older
Understand
You
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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
Accountants
Against
Attorneys
Black
Entertainers
Financial
Going
Grain
Like
Managers
Right
Structure
Supposed
Were
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I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
~ Solomon Burke
Down
Front
Hands
Holding
Holding Hands
Jumping
Lines
Marching
Me
Streets
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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 have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
~ Solomon Burke
Because
Borrow
Company
Enough
Get
Had
Money
My Own
Need
Own
Publishing
Publishing Company
Record
Record Company
Wanted
Whatever
Writers
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I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
~ Solomon Burke
Company
Depend
Need
Publish
Record
Record Company
Records
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
~ Solomon Burke
Fortune
Make
Need
Survive
To Survive
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I should have my own publishing companies.
~ Solomon Burke
Companies
My Own
Own
Publishing
Should
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I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
~ Solomon Burke
Box
Check
Chinese
Deal
Egg
Fat
Out
Record
Record Deal
Restaurant
Shrimp
Walked
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I want to be a soul singer.
~ Solomon Burke
Singer
Soul
Want
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
~ Solomon Burke
Hotel
MGM
Sands
Signed
Sixteen
Vegas
Weeks
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I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
~ Solomon Burke
Amazed
Give
Me
People
Remembered
Still
Up
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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
Black
Black Community
Buy
Chickens
Community
Could
Fried
Gonna
Great
Invest
Kentucky
McDonald
Move
Our
Own
Properties
Then
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Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
~ Solomon Burke
Chess
End
Label
Passed
Time
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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 bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.
~ Solomon Burke
Basically
Besides
Bring
Buddy
Curb
Different
Glee
Hank
Hank Williams
Idea
Label
Manager
Me
Mike
Put
Situation
Some
Something
Soul
Together
Who
Williams
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
~ Solomon Burke
Choices
Controversy
Make
Our
Sometimes
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That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
~ Solomon Burke
Beautiful
Choice
Great
Man
Nixon
President
Say
Still
Time
Very
Wise
Wise Man
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The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
~ Solomon Burke
Artists
Black
Deals
Made
Time
Were
White
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The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
~ Solomon Burke
Cool
God
Graces
Just
Just Be
Out
Secret
Stay
Work
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We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
~ Solomon Burke
Being
Business
Changed
Children
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Had
Just
Kidnapped
Problems
Show
Show Business
Some
Thinking
Time
Way
Were
Whole
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Solomon Burke
Profession
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BirthDate
21 March, 1940
DeathDate
10 October, 2010
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