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

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 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.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.

Most of us get our history through story.