Best Rick James Quotes

#1. I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Rick James

#2. Now is my time. Everything I've done up to this point is just a warm up. This is where it all begins.

Rick James

#3. William James said, The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Rick Warren

#4. Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

Rick James

#5. He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.

Rick Bragg

#6. I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

Rick James

#7. KISS hammered home the importance of high drama ... I decided to design my show with the same goal; I wanted my fans to remember my show for the rest of their lives.

Rick James

#8. If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

Rick James

#9. I believe everything happens under God's plan anyway.

Rick James

#10. To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

Rick Warren

#11. My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

Rick James

#12. I'm a long way from Ike Turner.

Rick James

#13. I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of winos, pimps and junkies, all the things I'm made of.

Rick James

#14. Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Rick James

#15. I'm really not tailored for responsibility.

Rick James

#16. I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

Rick James

#17. After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Rick James

#18. I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

Rick James

#19. That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

Rick James

#20. You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Rick James

#21. I try to make the audience forget all their problems
for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

Rick James

#22. I just live one day at a time.

Rick James

#23. I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.

Rick James

#24. I don't have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

Rick James

#25. I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

Rick James

#26. I'm too old to do crazy things anymore.

Rick James

#27. communication is a hellof a tool

Rick James

#28. I went to India, lived, and studied.

Rick James

#29. My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

Rick James

#30. I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Rick James

#31. You and I, we'll be together 'til the six is nine.

Rick James

#32. James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.

Rick Warren