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 More Quotes by Curtis Mayfield More Quotes From Curtis Mayfield Move on up towards your destination Curtis Mayfield destination moving Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing. Curtis Mayfield pushing dream remember Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Curtis Mayfield host wells purpose Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray. Curtis Mayfield another-way praying way The hunt is on and brother you're the prey. Curtis Mayfield prey hunts brother His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly. Curtis Mayfield hustle mind men Educated fools; from uneducated schools. Curtis Mayfield fool educated school Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors Curtis Mayfield police political brother Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go. Curtis Mayfield hell evil worry If there's hell below, we're all gonna go. Curtis Mayfield hell ifs 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 you song happiness love 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 yourself best look you Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. Curtis Mayfield any good painless preaching 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 good yesterday love people 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 myself you song sometimes 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 feel respect way world We weren't the Temptations, but when we came out onstage, the people always gave us a special respect because our songs were of an inspirational quality. Curtis Mayfield respect quality inspirational people With a spinal cord injury, which most people don't really know about... there are many, many complications that actually lead you through your life, and sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. Curtis Mayfield you sometimes life people Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues. Curtis Mayfield coming blues up chicago I was a very observant child. Almost anything could become a song to me. Curtis Mayfield become child me song
