Solomon Burke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Grace #Secret #Being Cool
I want to be a soul singer.
-- Solomon Burke

#Soul #Singers #Want
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
-- Solomon Burke

#Needs #Fortune
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

#Records #Needs #Enough
I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
-- Solomon Burke

#Hands #Jumping #Lines
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
-- Solomon Burke

#Littles #Grows
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
-- Solomon Burke

#Records #Apollo #Ability
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
-- Solomon Burke

#Chess #Labels #Ends
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
-- Solomon Burke

#Las Vegas #Sixteen #Sand
One of us is chained, none of us is free.
-- Solomon Burke
Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
-- Solomon Burke

#Giving Up #People #Amazed
Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.
-- Solomon Burke

#Girl #Angle
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
-- Solomon Burke

#Choices #Sometimes #Controversy
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.
-- Solomon Burke

#Ideas #Soul #Together

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