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Solomon Burke

"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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A.E. Samaan

"Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm painfully middle class."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

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A.E. Samaan

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship."

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A.E. Samaan

"I was always the class clown."

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Solomon Burke
"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."

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Solomon Burke
"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."

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Solomon Burke
"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."

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Solomon Burke
"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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Solomon Burke
"I want to be a soul singer."

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Solomon Burke
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."

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Solomon Burke
"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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Solomon Burke
"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."

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Solomon Burke
"The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists."

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Solomon Burke
"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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