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Don Cornelius

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

— Don Cornelius pleasure

Love, peace and soul.

— Don Cornelius peace

Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark.

— Don Cornelius dance

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

— Don Cornelius music

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

— Don Cornelius good

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

— Don Cornelius people

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

— Don Cornelius music

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

— Don Cornelius love

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

— Don Cornelius racism

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

— Don Cornelius passion

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

— Don Cornelius body

The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.

— Don Cornelius music

There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.

— Don Cornelius sin

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

— Don Cornelius time

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.

— Don Cornelius war

All I really wanted was to be a full-time disc jockey.

— Don Cornelius time

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

— Don Cornelius war

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

— Don Cornelius time

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

— Don Cornelius opportunity

I had difficulty working for other people.

— Don Cornelius people

MTV essentially killed 'American Bandstand' and 'Solid Gold,' because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure.

— Don Cornelius art

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

— Don Cornelius dance

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

— Don Cornelius vision

Who's more important than Diana Ross?

— Don Cornelius

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.

— Don Cornelius change

Its always a pleasure to find something that matters.

— Don Cornelius pleasure

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