38 Quotes by Curtis Mayfield

Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues.

Through my fans and my children, my wife, just good people, I'm coping.

With a spinal cord injury, which most people don't really know about... there are many, many complications that actually lead you through your life, and sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down.

When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.

I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

I didn't put Priest down. He was just trying to get out. His deeds weren't noble ones, but he was making money, and he had intelligence. And he did survive. I mean, all this was reality.

I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'