Rick James Quotes - Page 2

I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

I'm good. Or maybe people just like me.

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere I go. What would I change? And then one day you get onstage and you see two little girls who look like they are 11 years old sticking their tongues out and pulling their bras down and you quit touring. That's what happened to me.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

You can't outdo 'Street Songs' and I didn’t even try. [It] had that special magic that comes with timing and good vibrations and you can't even try to capture that exactly again.

Prison was a blessing. Going to prison was the greatest thing that happened to me. It showed me that I wasn't infallible. It showed me that I was just human. It showed me that I can be back with my ghetto brothers I grew up with and have a good time. It taught me to cool out. It taught me patience. It taught me that I didn't ever want to lose my freedom. It taught me that drugs bring on the devil. It taught me to grow up.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.

I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.

That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

When I'm about Rick James, it's all about get out there and kill 'em.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.