I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

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.

Most of the upper management of I.S. were undead. I always thought it was because the job was easier if you didn't have a soul.

If you can’t find a few minutes every day for yourself, you don’t have a complete life.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Hope keeps us alive. Love gives us joy. Perception of inner joy open the door toward the happiness.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come, " now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

It took less than half a second for me to realize that, as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.