- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in America. I was raised in America. And America truly has done me a lot of dirt, a lot of horrible things that I never will forget, but I know this is where I was born at.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to get in the back of the audience because people really want to get close to me, and I want to get close to them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have to open up when I'm on stage because that's what I did in my life. I want people to know what I've been through, and the love and the honesty that I have kept inside me. I just open my heart and let my heart go free.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I got nobody bothering me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has been a very cold place to me, and it was good once in a while. I meet good people. Sometimes I meet bad people. But there are some things that I still haven't forgotten today that hurt that bad.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I feel it, I got it, 'cause, like, on 'Changes,' I didn't never know what that song was, never knew who it was or who did it, but Tom Brenneck asked me to do that song.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone would find me. I never gave up hope. I fell flat on my face and got up again.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 62 years old, but I didn't give up on my dreams. I just feel that God heard my cry, and he put the right people in front of me.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so grateful there's people that believe in me and want to hear more about me.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020