13 Curtis Mayfield Quotes

Curtis Mayfield quotes

1. 'Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!''

1. If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

2. Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

3. I didn't have to leave my neighborhood to be surrounded by the things that 'Super Fly' is about. It was easier than most scripts because it was about an environment that I knew.

4. To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.

5. My art and my creativities were totally something that was of my own heart and mind. I could never let anybody dictate to me what I should write and how I would write it.

6. His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.

7. I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.

8. With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.

9. I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.

10. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

11. Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

12. Educated fools; from uneducated schools.