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
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
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
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
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. - James Brown
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
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
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there. - James Brown
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
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
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
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
Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all. - James Brown
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience. - James Brown
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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