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

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

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

Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

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