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Solomon Burke

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

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"I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records."
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"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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"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 want to be a soul singer."
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"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time."
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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."
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"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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"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."
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"As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better."
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