Solomon Burke Quotes

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

My material life is simple.

I prefer to stay poor.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.