If you want to give a show, make it real, and people will listen to you more carefully. — Charles Bradley Audience Copy Share Image
I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke. — Charles Bradley Always Copy Share Image
Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music. — Charles Bradley Always Copy Share Image
I did a CD way back in 1989, but I never got it off the ground. — Charles Bradley Back Copy Share Image
I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King. — Charles Bradley About Copy Share Image
Just know that all the pain that I've been through, it made me strong. — Charles Bradley Know Copy Share Image
I'm 63 now, and I need to take care of myself so that I can continue to perform at my best. — Charles Bradley Best Copy Share Image
If you're gonna sing, sing from your heart, and the world will hear you. — Charles Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right… — Charles Bradley Art love Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find a home that I can come home to, and there's no stress or pressure to be scared to… — Charles Bradley Find Copy Share Image
James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always… — Charles Bradley Always Copy Share Image
I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you,… — Charles Bradley Always Copy Share Image
I've fell flat on my face so many times, I'd rather be alone. I learned from the mistake, but I know I'm… — Charles Bradley Again Copy Share Image
I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn't know where my next… — Charles Bradley Come Copy Share Image
A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they've been through. They keep their loving and… — Charles Bradley Art Copy Share Image
All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I… — Charles Bradley Home Copy Share Image
We've got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like… — Charles Bradley Beautiful Copy Share Image
I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone… — Charles Bradley Face Copy Share Image
With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit… — Charles Bradley Free Copy Share Image
My grandmother always told me that regardless of what the world gives you, stay humble. Stay strong in your beliefs, and be… — Charles Bradley Be a man Copy Share Image
My faith in God is totally... there's nothing on this planet that can change my faith and love for God. Because I… — Charles Bradley Change Copy Share Image
I can't make nobody believe in God. I can't tell you. But you got to experience it for yourself. When you find… — Charles Bradley Believe Copy Share Image
James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And… — Charles Bradley Band Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful there's people that believe in me and want to hear more about me. — Charles Bradley About Copy Share Image
I just love dancing. When the music is really hitting my soul, then I really want to get into it. — Charles Bradley Dance Copy Share Image
My biggest struggle is time and trying to create the quality of music that I want. — Charles Bradley Create Copy Share Image
I've always been a person who wanted to withdraw from the world, because the changes I've been through, I just don't want… — Charles Bradley Always Copy Share Image
If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of… — Charles Bradley Crazy Copy Share Image
I like to see the joy in people's' faces. I like to see when they actually question that I'm not afraid to… — Charles Bradley Honesty Copy Share Image
If we don't change this world and look inside our differences inside of us, we gonna bring this world back to a… — Charles Bradley Change Copy Share Image
Peforming as James Brown, I didn't really have to go deep in my soul the way I do as Charles Bradley. — Charles Bradley Deep Copy Share Image
I can't be angry at God. Look at all the love that he gave us. Look at the beautiful planet that he… — Charles Bradley Angry Copy Share Image
It's not that I imitate him. I use a lot of what I feel. Even now, they refuse for me to stop… — Charles Bradley Heart Copy Share Image
I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in… — Charles Bradley Change Copy Share Image
Give your love and never change. Be willing to die for the love you carry inside. — Charles Bradley Change Copy Share Image
What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption… — Charles Bradley Corruption Copy Share Image
One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself. — Charles Bradley About Copy Share Image
When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville. — Charles Bradley Child Copy Share Image
