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A few of my favorite quotes from Sam
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My goal is to someday be in the same singing league with Harry Belafonte, Dean Martin, and Frank Sinatra. But whether I achieve my goal or not, I have organized my career on a business like basis and I know there will be well paying jobs waiting for me, even if my records stop selling... If, in the future, I can't find anyone who will pay me to sing, I'll still be in a position of getting paid when others sing.
Sam Cooke...Man with a Goal Pittsburg Couier, 10/8/60
Fame and fortune have a tendency to create, within those they strike, the urge to run away from home, family and people who formerly made their world an enjoyable place in which to live.
Sam Cooke...Chicago Defender 2/27/63
I have no doubts about myself. I have no fear. Doubt will kill you. Fear will kill you. The worst enemies are doubt and fear.
Sam Cooke
I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what is going on and try to figure out how people are thinking and determine the times of your day, I think you will always write something that people will understand.
Sam Cooke to D.Clark of American Bandstand
It changes. A lot of things change. Money is popping and everything is happening, and it's hard to separate the difference. Everybody want a piece of the pie: you can spread it everywhere and have nothing. And then you just like you were. You're slaving.
Sam Cooke to Bobby Womack 1964
When I first started singing pop tunes, I wondered how my former associates and fans would react. But they accepted me, as I see them all sitting in the front row...just like they did when i was with the Soul Stirrers.
Sam Cooke at the Civic Opera
Bobby, I don't come out of my room when I'm in a mood. I don't share it with nobody else. 'Cause when I'm uptight and down, why would I depress everybody else?
Sam Cooke to Bobby Womack
SAR Records is going to resurrect much of the excellent song material written by Negro song writers like Sheldon Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Walker, and Leon and Otis Rene. It amazes me, to see songs written by [presumably white] mediocres and neophytes given precedence over such great black music.
Sam Cooke to the black press
Ignorance. You see, my great-grandmother was a slave in Mississippi. She had no education.Neither did my father.
Sam Cooke to a reporter on the origin of his brother L.C.'s name.
I'm the same Sam Cook that was singing 'Jesus Give Me Water'. I haven't changed. I'm still Sam
Sam Cooke early in his career after crossing over to pop
You're showing ignorance. You know, we'll never be those people. We black, and we'll stay black. I'll never straighten my hair again.
Sam Cooke to Bobby Womack on processes
Excessively. History mostly because I want to know how to appeal to people, and books teach you that.
Sam Cooke to Maureen Cleave of the Evening Standard when asked, "Do you read"?
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