The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

Sometimes in life you've got to Ctrl, Alt, Delete and let go.

More than three fourths of all Americans are vitamin D-deficient.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

People sometimes ask me , what religion are you ? i always answer by saying, ''i am a little part of all religions and and a big part of no religion

Children are certainly too good to be true.