38 Quotes by Curtis Mayfield



  • Author Curtis Mayfield
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    Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

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  • Author Curtis Mayfield
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    My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

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  • Author Curtis Mayfield
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    I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.

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    As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

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  • Author Curtis Mayfield
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    How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

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