James Brown Quotes
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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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I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.
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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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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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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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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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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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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
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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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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
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Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
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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've got soul and I'm super bad.
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I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
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What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
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I'm going away tonight.
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I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.