James Brown Quotes

32 quotes in 419 categories

• You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
• You only live once.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.
• I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
• 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.
• The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
• When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
• 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,…
• You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

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