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James Brown Inspirational Quotes (43)

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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.
James Brown
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
James Brown
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The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
James Brown
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
James Brown
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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.
James Brown
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
James Brown
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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.
James Brown
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I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
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Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
James Brown
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The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
James Brown
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
James Brown
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
James Brown
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When you touch me, good God.
James Brown
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Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
James Brown
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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.
James Brown
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I've got soul and I'm super bad.
James Brown
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I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
James Brown
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Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.
James A.C. Brown
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