Rick James Quotes

• I don’t have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

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• I just live one day at a time.

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• I love rap.

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• I think rap definitely has its place in the art world. I think it is an art form. But, just like any art form, you can misuse it.

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• I went to India, lived, and studied.

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• I’m finally locked into the now, and it’s great.

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• I’m too old to do crazy things anymore.

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• I’m trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

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• I’m really not tailored for responsibility.

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• I’m a long way from Ike Turner.

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• I was going to get drafted, but I didn’t really want to go into the Army.

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• I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn’t think I was going to be on the earth long.

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• I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

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• I love kids.

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• I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted.

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• I believe everything happens under God’s plan anyway.

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• You can’t have rock and roll without drugs, you can’t have rock and roll without s*x.

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• If anything I consider myself non-violent, I’m from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

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• I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn’t have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling… I’m the most sampled artist in history.

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• I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.

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Rick James (21)

Birth:	1st February, 1948
Death:	6th August, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Singer

About

Rick James was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for being one of the popularizers of funk music in the late 1970s.

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