As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

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.

I've got soul and I'm super bad.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Hope is a tree of Life.

stars shine brighter in the blackness of darkness.Cheer up no matter your pains

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Good men must be affectionate men.