Quotes by James Brown - Page 2

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Politics
Get Involved
Involved
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I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
James Brown / Musical Artist
Funk
Grades
Use
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My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Crazy
Loud
Names
Son
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Brown
People
Said
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I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Dollars
Million Dollars
Ties
Bonds
Million
None
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Men
Hair
Teeth
Two
Thing
Man
Those
He
First
First Thing
Got
Second
The First Thing
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Family
Hell
Papa
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When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Accepted
Brought
Happening
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Jobs
Play
Shoes
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I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Men
Ghetto
Rapper
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Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Helping
Moses
Names
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Music
Names
Tunes
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Care
People
Thinking
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Awards
Giving
Good Heart
Heart
Award
Days
Cause
Crying
Michael
Early
Early Days
Jackson
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Respect
Thankful
Appreciative
Christ
Said
Thankfulness
Thee
Learned
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
People
Son
Thinking
Model
Best Looking People
James
Role Model
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Gary
Indiana
Saws
Talent
Years
Years Ago
Michael
Saw
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Family
Father
Forget
Hard
Needs
Nourishment
Spiritual
Struggle
Everybody
Feed
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
African American
Easier
Matter
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown / Musical Artist
African American
Church
Joy
One Thing
People
Stage
Trouble
Trying
Does
Bring
Find
Lose
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Differences
Neat
Weight
Years
Years Ago
Expresses
Opposed
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Schubert
Two
Written
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I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Racism
Son
Mixed
Norwegian
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I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Body
Lord
Warm
Good Me Body
About An Hour
Again
Aside
Back
Back Up
Good Me Back
Brought
Cause
Still
Good Lord
Hour
Laid
Picked
Tried
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Jobs
Men
Couple
Moses
Prison
Became
Believed
Cause
Richest
Richest Man
Waited
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
War
Rapper
Song
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Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Kids
Country
Real
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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.
James Brown / Musical Artist
Moving
Religious
Sea
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