Talk:James Brown

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• Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying?

• I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

• I felt like the blacks had gotten lost in musical trends in some ways, and got away from what they were really looking for.

• I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

• I hope you live 200 years, and that I live 200 years minus one day, so I never know beautiful people like you passed away.

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

• 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.

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

• I tell my wife, You got plenty of time left. Don't live so fast. Slow down and live, and don't try to catch up.

• I thank God for the Apollo Theater. When I saw those people, that was the awards.

• 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 think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.

• 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 want to say to the young people, Honor thy father and thy mother. Your days will be longer and more fruitful.

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Now, we own a publishing house that's way up in the billions of dollars and gets bigger and bigger. That's probably the only thing that makes me look like Bill Gates!

• 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.

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

• 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.

• You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

• You can't teach others if you are living the same way.