Curtis Mayfield Quotes
Curtis Mayfield delivers purposeful, uplifting messages about music, values, and education.
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'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!''
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If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
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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.
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To talk about the '60s almost brings tears to my eyes. What we did. What we all did. We changed the world.
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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.
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His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
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I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for.
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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.
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I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me.
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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.
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Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.