James Brown Quotes
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
— James Brown
Once there the main man, the bearded preacher, bridles and jabs, spasms and gurns like a pre-ejaculatory James Brown.
— Russell Brand
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
— Al Jarreau
I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.
— James Brown
My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.
— James Brown
When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.
— James Brown
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
— Little Richard
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
— James Brown
Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
— James Brown
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
— Bill Nighy
What matters is how many times you get up.
— Daniel James Brown
They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them.
— James K. Morrow
You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
— James Brown
I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit.
— James Brown
I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
— James Brown
The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
— Gary Oldman
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
— James Brown
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.
— Captain Beefheart
It's like James Brown used to say ... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.
— Curtis Jones
The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.
— James Brown
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
— Al Sharpton
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
— Stefon Harris
I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
— Charley Pride
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
— James Brown
I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.
— Chris Brown
You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.
— James Brown
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
— James Brown
I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
— L.A. Reid
You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
— James Brown
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
— James Brown
I've been knocked down a lot of times.
— James Brown
And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.
— David James Duncan
I'm twice as old, but I feel good.
— James Brown
I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
— James Brown
For goodness sake, look at those cakes.
— James Brown
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
— James Brown
A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.
— Daniel James Brown
I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair.
— James Brown
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.
— James Brown
So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl. -Max
— James Patterson
When you touch me, good God.
— James Brown
As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
— James Brown
Thank God for the journey.
— James Brown
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.
— James A.C. Brown
I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was.
— James Brown
I've got soul and I'm super bad.
— James Brown
Every day you should be doing right what you recognized as wrong the day before. Obviously.
— Jedidiah James Brown
Hurting was nothing new to him.
— Daniel James Brown
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
— James Turrell
Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
— James Brown
Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
— James Brown
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
— James Brown
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.
— James Brown
And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.
— James Patterson
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
— Kevin Eubanks
When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.
— Neil Peart
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
— Philip James Bailey
Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
— Jules Shear
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
— James Brown
Little, Brown and Company
— James Patterson
I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does.
— James Richardson
Our silence is deafening and deadly.
— James Brown
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
— Al Sharpton
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— James Dean Brown
set up machine-gun emplacements at Pier 91; the chief refused
— Daniel James Brown
Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
— James Brown
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
— David Lee Roth
I just thank God for all of the blessings.
— James Brown
The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown
— Richard Ouzounian
The only time you don't find a four-leaf clover," he liked to say, "is when you stop looking for one.
— Daniel James Brown
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
— Amiri Baraka
