James Brown Quotes
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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
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Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
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I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
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I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is difficult to find things to talk about, to use similar reference points, and to operate at the same speed of life. Another problem is that both sides usually don't want the same things at the same time.
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Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
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I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
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Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.
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It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.'
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.