Top 23 Quotes by Solomon Burke

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

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

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.

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

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

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

I should have my own publishing companies.

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.

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.

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