Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
- Curtis Mayfield
Words, Maybe, Another, Another Way
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
Love, Old, About, Old People
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
Capable, Through, Feel, Preachers
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
Love, Stress, Song, Conversation
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
- Curtis Mayfield
Purpose, Well, Entertain, Educate
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
Deal, Albums, Putting, Sustain
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
Song, Some, Always, Sermons
Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.
- Curtis Mayfield
Good, Preaching, Term, Painless
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
Year, Around, Listener, High School
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