Quotes from James Brown

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.

Live as long as you can. Die when you can't help it.

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

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Say It Loud: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Some people say we've got a lot of malice,Some say it's a lot of nerve.But I say we won't quit movingUntil we get what we deserve.

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.

Stay on the sceneLike a sex machine

Paranoia, I tell myself, is a man with the facts.

Grown men who insist on wearing water shoes to the grocery store deserve all the ridicule which is heaped upon them

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.

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

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

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

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.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

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

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

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.

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

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Thank God for the journey.

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