I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
– James Brown
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
– James Brown
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
– James Brown
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.
– James Brown
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
– James Brown
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 lose it.
– James Brown
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
– James Brown
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
– James Brown
I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.