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Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
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.
As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
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.
When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
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.
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.
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.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.