American - Musician | March 21, 1940 - October 10, 2010
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.
Solomon Burke
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I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
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I want to be a soul singer.
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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
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I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
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Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
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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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I should have my own publishing companies.
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I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
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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.
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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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The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
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