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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all. — James Brown

Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown. — Russell Brand

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash. — James Brown

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that. — Al Jarreau

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them. — James Brown

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. — James Brown

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me. — James Brown

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. — Little Richard

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown. — Don King

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. — James Brown

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. — Wanda Sykes

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking! — James Brown

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. — Bill Nighy

What matters is how many times you get up. — Daniel James Brown

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them. — James K. Morrow

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

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit. — James Brown

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else. — James Brown

I don't know karate, but I know crazy. — James Brown

The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso — Aretha Franklin

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live. — James Brown

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. — Gary Oldman

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience. — James Brown

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could. — James Brown

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version. — Rita Mae Brown

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. — Captain Beefheart

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing — James Brown

It's like James Brown used to say ... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky. — Curtis Jones

The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell. — James Brown

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. — Al Sharpton

I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. — Stefon Harris

I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got. — Charley Pride

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more. — James Brown

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism. — James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved. — James Brown

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days. — James Brown

Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance. — James Brown

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke. — Chris Brown

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting. — James Brown

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about. — 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 was a James Brown junkie as a kid. — L.A. Reid

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

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you. — James Brown

You got to use what you got to get just what you want. — James Brown

A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.' — Tina Brown

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

I've been knocked down a lot of times. — James Brown

Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup. — James Brown

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile. — David James Duncan

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people. — James Brown

I'm twice as old, but I feel good. — James Brown

I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy! — James Brown

Our immediate influence in b-boying was James Brown, point blank. — Crazy Legs

For goodness sake, look at those cakes. — James Brown

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself. — James Brown

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew. — Daniel James Brown

I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair. — James Brown

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper. — James Brown

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. — James Brown

So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl. -Max — James Patterson

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again. — James Brown

When you touch me, good God. — James Brown

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music. — James Brown

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. — James Brown

Thank God for the journey. — James Brown

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. — James A.C. Brown

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away. — James Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was. — James Brown

I've got soul and I'm super bad. — James Brown

Every day you should be doing right what you recognized as wrong the day before. Obviously. — Jedidiah James Brown

Hurting was nothing new to him. — Daniel James Brown

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids. — James Turrell

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all. — James Brown

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. — James Brown

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. — James Brown

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. — James Brown

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II. — James Patterson

James Brown is the reason I play guitar. — Kevin Eubanks

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that. — Neil Peart

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. — Philip James Bailey

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun. — Jules Shear

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there. — James Brown

Little, Brown and Company — James Patterson

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does. — James Richardson

Our silence is deafening and deadly. — James Brown

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably. — Al Sharpton

this type of analysis combines the three target-situation analyses (use, linguistic, and learning) and the present-situation analysis to — James Dean Brown

set up machine-gun emplacements at Pier 91; the chief refused — Daniel James Brown

Money won't change you, but time will take you out. — James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. — James Brown

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. — James Brown

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. — David Lee Roth

I just thank God for all of the blessings. — James Brown

The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown — Richard Ouzounian

The only time you don't find a four-leaf clover," he liked to say, "is when you stop looking for one. — Daniel James Brown

James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. — Amiri Baraka

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking. — Sandra Bullock

I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself) — James Brown

Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker. — Tamara Tunie