Charles Bradley Quotes

Charles Bradley

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 5, 1948

I can't make nobody believe in God. I can't tell you. But you got to experience it for yourself. When you find the true meaning of a spiritual gift, of what God give you? Nothing on this planet can give you that much joy.

Charles Bradley

I have a routine to work on my vocals. I always get some honey and some extra virgin olive oil to coat my throat, and I go to bed.

Charles Bradley

I was learning 'Changes' at the time that my mom was sick and she was leaving me. And those last verses in that song, they really struck my soul, totally.

Charles Bradley

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

Charles Bradley

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

Charles Bradley

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

Charles Bradley

We've got to learn how to not look at creed or color. Look at how beautiful a bouquet of roses looks like - different color roses, all look beautiful. We have to learn how to let our beauty of the color of our roses shine to the world.

Charles Bradley

My faith in God is totally... there's nothing on this planet that can change my faith and love for God. Because I believe that's who kept me strong, who kept me going through all the darkness and brought me through the darkness into the light.

Charles Bradley

A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they've been through. They keep their loving and honesty growing and learn to look at the world and not be full of hatred.

Charles Bradley

If you're a real person, I don't care if you blue - I'm going to be your friend. Everybody's tired of all of the hatred and animosity. I just want to live.

Charles Bradley

I've fell flat on my face so many times, I'd rather be alone. I learned from the mistake, but I know I'm going to turn around and do it all over again.

Charles Bradley

My biggest struggle is time and trying to create the quality of music that I want.

Charles Bradley

I hope my music can help many nations all over the world see that the true things come out of the earth, and then they go back into the earth. But the true love you have to find within yourself and learn to respect one another from nation to nation.

Charles Bradley

I always try to get in the back of the audience because people really want to get close to me, and I want to get close to them.

Charles Bradley

I'm 62 years old, but I didn't give up on my dreams. I just feel that God heard my cry, and he put the right people in front of me.

Charles Bradley

I go out of my way to acknowledge the public and let them know that I'm not always on stage. Offstage, I care. I live their life.

Charles Bradley

Honestly, I've been excited for music ever since I was 16 years old. I'll always love the music.

Charles Bradley

Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness of the ocean. I turn every light off, and I turn the stereo on, and I just go in my mind, cry, talk to God, tell him, 'I'm your child, too.' And I stay in my little solitude until I can get the strength to go outdoors.

Charles Bradley

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption I see.

Charles Bradley

I never knew about racial segregation until Martin Luther King.

Charles Bradley