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
The financial sector is recovering nicely. Wall Street has been reporting record profits and doing lots of mergers and acquisitions, so they're certainly adding to the local economy.
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
I've got soul and I'm super bad.
You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
I just thank God for all of the blessings.
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.
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
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.
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.
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.
Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.