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I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
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I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
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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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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.
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The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
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Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
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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.
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The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
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I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
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That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
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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.
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Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
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As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
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