Curtis Mayfield Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 17 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Curtis Mayfield.
Famous Quotes By Curtis Mayfield
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. — Curtis Mayfield
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. — Curtis Mayfield
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. — Curtis Mayfield
His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly. — Curtis Mayfield
Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors — Curtis Mayfield
I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there. — Curtis Mayfield
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. — Curtis Mayfield
If there's hell below, we're all gonna go. — Curtis Mayfield
Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing. — Curtis Mayfield
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. — Curtis Mayfield
Move on up towards your destination — Curtis Mayfield
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. — Curtis Mayfield
The hunt is on and brother you're the prey. — Curtis Mayfield
Educated fools; from uneducated schools. — Curtis Mayfield