Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you..

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..

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism..

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them..

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy..

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to l….

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days..

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting..

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself..

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience..

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves..

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live..

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick..

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 downbea….

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

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500..

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that ….

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

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

In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the l….

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing.