James Brown Quotes
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If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
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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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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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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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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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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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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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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
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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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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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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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What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
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Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
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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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Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
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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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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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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
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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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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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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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I've been knocked down a lot of times.