James Brown Quotes

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
Gary Oldman

Guy, Punk, Interested

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.
Tommy Chong

Night, Trying, Playing

I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.
Jennifer Lopez

Love, Good, Different

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
Gary Oldman

Music, Time, Soul

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

Music, Famous, Feeling

I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
James Brown

Best, Son, Looking

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
James Brown

Time, Live, Down

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

Father, Son, Talk

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
Bill Nighy

Respect, Guitar, While

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.
Don Van Vliet

Good, Important, Wrong

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman.
Mayer Hawthorne

Mean, Boring, Perfect

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
Kevin Eubanks

Play, Guitar, Reason

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
Wanda Sykes

Used, Impression, Awful

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
Charlie Hunter

Individual, Create, Line

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.
Jules Shear

Fun, Different, Last

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.
Curtis Jones

Play, Whatever, Used

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
Sam Rockwell

Good, Fun, Enough

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
John Fogerty

Great, Dance, Though

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
Brian Austin Green

Through, Found, Artists

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
L.A. Reid

Kid, Junkie, Brown

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
Dave Haywood

Music, Rock, Soul

I've been to two stadium gigs in my life. One was James Brown and the other was Pink Floyd. They both sounded the same. I couldn't tell the difference between James Brown and Pink Floyd. I've never liked stadiums.
Boz Burrell

Life, Two, Same

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