Quote #37

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

More from James Brown

  1. You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
  2. The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
  3. The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
  4. Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
  5. Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
  6. Now, we own a publishing house that's way up in the billions of dollars and gets bigger and bigger. That's probably the only thing that mak…
  7. My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
  8. I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

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