James Brown Quotes
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
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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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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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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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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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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
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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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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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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, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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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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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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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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Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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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 Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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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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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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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.