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

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You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

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

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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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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.

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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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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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