Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

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.

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

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

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