I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke. — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown. — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
The first record I heard as a kid? My dad is a great soul and blues fan, so he showed me James… — Bakermat Copy Share Image
I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time. — James Brown Copy Share Image
You couldn't help but like James Brown if you came to see a show because he's such a wonderful showman. — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
James Brown, he won't let you down. Now Elvis was the king of rock and roll. — Queen (band Copy Share Image
I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music. — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
My mom was a big fan of Al Green... James Brown we weren't allowed to listen to, so of course I knew… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through,… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
Psy is fantastic. He's shifted the planet. He's got the whole world dancing. And it's a rarity in this world. Only four… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
“When I saw him move I was mesmerized. I've never seen a performer perform like James Brown and right then and there… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always… — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“James Brown went to the pearly gates and met St. Peter who took him to a room where Jerry Garcia was playing… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“On stage James Brown seemed like a wild man, but everything had to be perfect, offstage and on. Shoes shined, suits pressed,… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
“James Brown had many guises, many names: Crip, Music Box, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Mr. Please Please Please, Butane… — R.J. Smith Copy Share Image
When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under… — Bobby Womack Copy Share Image
“Think of all the different ways that stories get told. I’m working with the James Brown people on a movie that will… — Ahmir Questlove Thompson Copy Share Image
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
