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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."

"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."

"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."

"Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man."


"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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