Solomon Burke

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

— Solomon Burke

#i #mgm #sands #signed #sixteen

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

— Solomon Burke

#give #i #me #people #remembered

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. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#black community #buy #chickens #community #could

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

— Solomon Burke

#end #label #leonard #passed #time

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

— Solomon Burke

#controversy #make #our #sometimes

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

— Solomon Burke

#choice #great #great president #i #man

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

— Solomon Burke

#black #deals #made #time #were

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

— Solomon Burke

#god #graces #just #just be #out

We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#business #changed #children #during #else

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. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#going #grooving #had #hamilton #into