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

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

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.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

Don’t wait for passion to arrive before taking action

God’s power supersedes any power.

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

I find that writing is a constant battle with exactly the same problems you've always had.

Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.

I prefer to work alone – except in the bedroom. (Steele)