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Curtis Mayfield
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Curtis Mayfield
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Quotations
Curtis Mayfield was an African American soul musician.
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- "Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'"
- quoted in The Sociology of Rock by Simon Frith, 1978, ISBN 0094602204
Lyrics
- Now is always the right time
- With something positive in your mind
- Whenever someone pulls you down
- Just get back up and hold your ground.
- ...
- Summer, winter, fall just go
- Through the rain and through the snow.
- Just get on back to living again...right on.
- 'Back to Living Again', New World Order, 1996
- Don't worry - if there's a hell below, we all gonna go.
- '(Don't Worry) If There's Hell Below We're All Going To Go', Curtis
- Move on up
- towards your destination
- Though you may find
- from time to time
- Complications
- 'Move On Up', Curtis
- We'll all turn black
- So who's to know
- As a matter of fact
- Color, creed and breed must go
- There will be no light
- So there can be no sight
- And you'll judge your fellow man
- Understand bout what is right
- A million music, a million sound
- There's neutral thoughts
- For the underground
- 'Underground', Roots
- Oooh, Superfly
- You're gonna make your fortune by and by
- But if you lose, don't ask no questions why
- The only game you know is do or die
- 'Superfly', Superfly
- I was someone more
- Because I was no one poor
- To find that I too was down on my knees.
- I'm just homeless.
- 'Homeless', Take It To The Streets
- Why can't we brothers
- Protect one another?
- 'Freddie's Dead', Superfly
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