James Brown Quotes
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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 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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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
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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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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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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'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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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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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
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Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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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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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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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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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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Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.