Solomon Burke

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

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

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

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

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.

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.