Solomon Burke Quotes

• The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

  Solomon Burke

  Grace, Secret, Being Cool

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

  Solomon Burke

  Needs, Fortune

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• Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.

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  Girl, Angle

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

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  Choices, Sometimes, Controversy

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• As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

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  Littles, Grows

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• If one of us is chained, none of us are free...

  Solomon Burke

  Chained

  "Song: None of Us Are Free (Don't Give Up On Me)". July 23, 2002.

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• I want to be a soul singer.

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  Soul, Want, Singers

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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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  Ideas, Soul, Together

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• Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

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  Giving Up, People, Amazed

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• Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

  Solomon Burke

  Labels, Chess, Ends

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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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  Jumping, Hands, Lines

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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.

  Solomon Burke

  Needs, Records, Enough

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

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  Vegas, Sixteen, Hospitality

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• Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

  Solomon Burke

  Apollo, Records, Ability

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