I want to be a soul singer.
I don’t need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
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.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
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.
One of us is chained, none of us is free.
Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.
Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn’t love them all. But I tried.
Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.
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.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
A tiny fly can choke a big man.