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Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Blues
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Educate
Purpose
Entertain
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Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Another Way
Pray
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I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Influences
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My fights and arguments, even with God, went down on paper.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Fights
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Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Painless
Preaching
Term
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Through my fans and my children, my wife, just good people, I'm coping.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Coping
Good People
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I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Observant
Almost Anything
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When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Symphony
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To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Tears
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I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Information
Old People
Used
Yesterday
Talk
Sit
To Love
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This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Secure
Accident
Incident
Onstage
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Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Equality
Black
Observing
Race
Rights
Sensing
Young
Women Man Me
Wrote
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We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Onstage
Temptations
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As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Righteous
Sermons
Manner
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My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Teacher
Amount
High School
Left
Real
School
Good Teacher Me
Good Me People
Anything
After
Teachers
Around
Year
Were
High
Listener
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My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Dictate
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I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts because it was about an environment that I knew.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Easier
Environment
Neighborhood
Scripts
Leave
Super
Surrounded
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How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Deal
Best Look Yourself
Putting
Sustain
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I didn't put Priest down. He was just trying to get out. His deeds weren't noble ones, but he was making money, and he had intelligence. And he did survive. I mean, all this was reality.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Deeds
Making Money
Noble
Priest
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Reading the script, I started feeling very deeply bad for Freddie. Between his friends, his partners, and his woman, he was catching a hard time. 'Freddie's Dead' came to me immediately.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Catching
Partners
Time Me Dead
Time Me Bad
Hard Time
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With a spinal cord injury, which most people don't really know about... there are many, many complications that actually lead you through your life, and sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Life Your People
Life People Sometimes
Complications
Cord
Spinal
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Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Happiness
Conversation
Hurt
Observance
Song
Stress
Love People Feel
Write
Could
Personal
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With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Capable
Respect World Way
Preached
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I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'
Curtis Mayfield / Singer-Songwriter
Feel Good
Hey
Might
Best Good Myself
Anybody
Anybody Else
Appoint
Observe
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