I was writing songs from when I was 12. My songs always came from questions that I need answers for. Curtis Mayfield More Quotes by Curtis Mayfield More Quotes From Curtis Mayfield Move on up towards your destination Curtis Mayfield destinationmoving Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing. Curtis Mayfield pushingdreamremember Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Curtis Mayfield hostwellspurpose Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray. Curtis Mayfield another-wayprayingway The hunt is on and brother you're the prey. Curtis Mayfield preyhuntsbrother His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly. Curtis Mayfield hustlemindmen Educated fools; from uneducated schools. Curtis Mayfield fooleducatedschool Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors Curtis Mayfield policepoliticalbrother Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go. Curtis Mayfield hellevilworry If there's hell below, we're all gonna go. Curtis Mayfield hellifs 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 yousonghappinesslove 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 yourselfbestlookyou Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. Curtis Mayfield anygoodpainlesspreaching 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 goodmeteacherpeople 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 goodyesterdaylovepeople 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 myselfyousongsometimes 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 feelrespectwayworld 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 respectqualityinspirationalpeople 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 yousometimeslifepeople Coming up in Chicago, we heard a lot of blues. Curtis Mayfield comingbluesupchicago
