James Brown Quotes

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

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

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.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

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

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

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

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.

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 don't know karate, but I know crazy.

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

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

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

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

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

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.