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Curtis Mayfield [1942-1999] American

Rank: 106
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

Happiness, Teacher

Quote	Tags	Rank
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.		101
Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.		102
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.	Happiness	103
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.	Teacher	104
I used to love to sit and listen to the old people talk about yesterday. There's a lot of good information there.		105
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.		106
Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.		107
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.		108
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.		109

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