Top 17 Curtis Mayfield Quotes
#1. As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
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#2. Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love ... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
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#3. Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors
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#5. Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing.
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#9. His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
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#11. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
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#12. Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.
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#13. My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.
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#14. How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.
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#15. With all respect, I'm sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not make a person feel as though they're being preached at.
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#16. I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.
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#17. Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
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