James Brown
James Brown
James Joseph Brownwas an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and bandleader. The founding father of funk music and a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance, he is often referred to as the "Godfather of Soul". In a career that spanned six decades, he influenced the development of several music genres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth3 May 1933
CityBarnwell, SC
CountryUnited States of America
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.
Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.
Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.