110 Quotes by James Brown

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

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don’t go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

I’m a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top – God and Jack The Rapper.

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

When I’m on stage, I’m trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

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.

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

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 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.