James Brown Quotes - Page 3

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, you like to let the hair do the talking!

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

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.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

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

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

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

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.

When you touch me, good God.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

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.

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.

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.

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've been knocked down a lot of times.

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

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

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