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"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
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"Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States."
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"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"
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"I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe."
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"Better be alone than in bad company."
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"I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately."
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"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."
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"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."
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"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."
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"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
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"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me."
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"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
"That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man."
Time
"Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make."
Choice
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
Work
"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."
Business
"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
Class
"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."
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