James Brown

“I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too.”

“Get up, get into it, and get involved.”

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.”

“You got to use what you got to get what you want.”

“When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does.”

“I feel good!”

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

“Hair is the first thing. And teeth are the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.”

“The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

“I've got soul and I'm super bad.”

“Papa don't take no mess.”

“As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams.”

“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies!”

“Funk is the greasy, smelly, sweaty side of jazz. It's the down-to-earth side of things.”