--- title: "Curtis Mayfield Quotes | QuotesBy.net" description: "Curtis Mayfield delivers purposeful, uplifting messages about music, values, and education. Read all 13 quotes by Curtis Mayfield on QuotesBy.net." image: "https://quotesby.net/wp-content/themes/quotesby-editorial/assets/og-default.png" --- ## 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!'' [Permalink to quote \#1](https://quotesby.net/Curtis-Mayfield/1/ "Permalink to quote 1") ## Also attributed 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. 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