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
Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
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.
Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
When you touch me, good God.
Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.
You can't teach others if you are living the same way.
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.
Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.
Our silence is deafening and deadly.
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.
Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.