Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
James Brown
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James Brown
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 3
Died: 2006
Died: December 25
Actor
Composer
Dancer
Guitarist
Manufacturer
Musical Artist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Sound Designer
Barnwell
South Carolina
James Joseph Brown
Jr.
The Godfather of Soul
00004345815 IPI
Mr. Dynamite
Soul Brother #1
Business
Helping
Persons
Music
Retire
Person
Moses
Made
Retiring
Would
Name
Like
Names
More quotes by James Brown
I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
James Brown
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown
The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
James Brown
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
James Brown
You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
James Brown
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.
James Brown
You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
James Brown
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
James Brown
I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
James Brown
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
What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
James Brown
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
James Brown
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.
James Brown
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
James Brown
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
James Brown
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.
James Brown
I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
James Brown
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.
James Brown
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
