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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."
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"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
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"It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days."
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"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
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"If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now."
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"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
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"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."
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"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."
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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."
Time
"As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better."
Life
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
Time
"I should have my own publishing companies."
Publishing
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
People
"I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive."
Fortune
"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
"The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out."
Work
"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."
Money
"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
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