Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.

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.

Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there!'Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy?

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

I think life is a big game we play.

The best investor is your customer.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.