You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

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.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are.

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

To have everything you want, help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls