Solomon Burke Quotes
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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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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
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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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Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
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The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
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Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
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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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Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.
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If one of us is chained, none of us are free...
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I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
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I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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