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"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be."
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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
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"They said, 'If we put you in first class with Brian, will you do it?' So I flew after not having flown in eight years. If there's one person who doesn't like flying as much as me, it's Brian."
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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"I should have my own publishing companies."
Publishing
"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
"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."
Class
"I want to be a soul singer."
Soul
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
People
"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."
Community
"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
"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."
Money
"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
"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
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