Art and music Quote by James Brown

“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”

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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like…

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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

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Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

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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.

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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…

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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

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It's a Man's Man's Man's World

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I've been knocked down a lot of times.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

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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…

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