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"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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"You are capable of great deeds."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."
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"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
People
"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
Company
"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 had no programming."
Direction
"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."
Management
"I want to be a soul singer."
Soul
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
Ability
"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."
Finance
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
Time
"The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists."
Time
"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 where the South was changing."
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