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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."
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"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."
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"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up."
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"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."
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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."
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"I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light."
Light
"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse."
Trouble
"There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate."
Music
"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."
Learning
"I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time."
Music
"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it."
Love
"I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were."
Time
"All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am."
Thought
"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album."
Body
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
Son
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