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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
James Brown
2.
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
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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
4.
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
James Brown
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I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown
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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
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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
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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
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
James Brown
10.
You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
James Brown
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
James Brown
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Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
James Brown
13.
Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.
James Brown
14.
I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
James Brown
15.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown
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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
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Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
James Brown
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
James Brown
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
James Brown
20.
Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
James Brown
21.
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
James Brown
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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
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You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown
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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
25.
I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
James Brown
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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
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Thank God for the journey.
James Brown
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
James Brown
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
James Brown
30.
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
James Brown
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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
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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
James Brown
33.
Our silence is deafening and deadly.
James Brown
34.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
James Brown
35.
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
James Brown
36.
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
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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
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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.
James Brown
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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
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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
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I've been knocked down a lot of times.
James Brown
42.
I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
James Brown
43.
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
James Brown
44.
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
45.
Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
James Brown
46.
When you touch me, good God.
James Brown
47.
For goodness sake, look at those cakes.
James Brown
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You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
James Brown
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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
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
