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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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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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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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 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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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
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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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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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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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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
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Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
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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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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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Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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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.