I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.
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.
Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.