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Sam Phillips

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If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.


— Sam Phillips


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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.


— Sam Phillips


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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.


— Sam Phillips


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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.


— Sam Phillips


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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.


— Sam Phillips


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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.


— Sam Phillips


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The contest is commemorated in a song by the Drive-by Truckers. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
In 1986 Sam Phillips was part of the first group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. When Elvis Presley walked in unexpectedly Johnny Cash was called into the studio by Phillips leading to an impromptu session featuring the four musicians.

He was an early investor in the Holiday Inn chain of hotels. Phillips sold Sun in 1969.

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