Top 26 Quotes by Don Cornelius

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an opportunity to get national television exposure.

One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I had difficulty working for other people.

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.'

Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.