James Brown

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use.

James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

James Brown

Money won’t change you. But time will take you on.

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

Thank God for the journey.

James Brown

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

James Brown

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don’t have no down time.

James Brown

What everybody’s looking for today, they’re looking for escape-ism.

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

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

James Brown