James Brown Quotes
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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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What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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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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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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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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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
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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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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
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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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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
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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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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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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
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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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Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
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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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Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
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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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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'm going away tonight.