Best 55 quotes of James Brown on MyQuotes

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

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.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

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

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

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

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.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

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.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

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.

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

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

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.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

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.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

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.

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 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 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've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

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

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

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.

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.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

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.

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.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

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.

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.

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.

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

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.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.