Top 23 Quotes by Solomon Burke

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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