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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

Topics: About Good Information Listen Lot Love Old Old People People Sit Talk To Love Used Yesterday

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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

~Curtis Mayfield

Topics: Educate Entertain Our Purpose Well

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Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.

~Curtis Mayfield

Topics: Any Good Painless Preaching Term

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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

Topics: Albums Best Deal Got How Just Look Many Out Putting Sustain Things Try You Yourself

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Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

~Curtis Mayfield

Topics: Another Another Way Just Maybe Pray Say Way Words

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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

Topics: About Conversation Could Every Everything Feel Happiness Hurt Love Observance People Personal Song Stress Write You

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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

Topics: After Amount Anything Around Good High High School Left Listener Me Never People Real School Teacher Teachers Were Year

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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

Topics: Always Back Could Go Kid Manner Myself Nobody Put Righteous Sermons Some Sometimes Song Talk Turn You

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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

Topics: Able Being Capable Enough Feel Make Person Preached Preachers Respect Say Sure Things Though Through Way World Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: June 3rd, 1942

Died: December 26th, 1999

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