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
I don't know karate, but I know crazy.
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
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.
I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.
You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
For goodness sake, look at those cakes.
This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
Take those kids and raise them up, teach them how to drink out of a righteous cup.
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
I'm twice as old, but I feel good.