Solomon Burke Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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

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

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

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.

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.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.