61 Quotes by Charles Bradley

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

Peforming as James Brown, I didn't really have to go deep in my soul the way I do as Charles Bradley.

If we start putting music out constantly where people don't think no more, people go crazy. We're gonna lose the love of heart, of soul. And if the world lose that, I think the world is doomed.

I did a tour down South someplace, and it was an all-day festival, and there were about 2,000 people. It was pouring down rain, and I went to grab the mic, and I got electrocuted. I felt the electricity flow through my body.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

My biggest struggle is time and trying to create the quality of music that I want.

I have a routine to work on my vocals. I always get some honey and some extra virgin olive oil to coat my throat, and I go to bed.

I go out of my way to acknowledge the public and let them know that I'm not always on stage. Offstage, I care. I live their life.

Everybody tell me everywhere I go that I'm the closest thing to James Brown they ever seen.