The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
I’ve got soul and I’m super bad.
You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
My music wasn’t written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It’s written by God and me. They go “a one and a two and up.” We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that’s where we got them.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he’s got it all.
Don’t let nobody take care of your business better than you.
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
It doesn’t matter how you travel it, it’s the same road. It doesn’t get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
I don’t know karate, but I know ka-razy!
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.
Money won’t change you, but time will take you out.
I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I’m so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
When you touch me, good God.
You can’t teach others if you are living the same way.
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.
I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
What everybody’s looking for today, they’re looking for escape-ism.
I’d rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.