Band Quote by Charles Bradley

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

— Bill Nighy

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that…

— Kat Graham

When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think…

— Justin Hayward

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix,…

— Phil Collen

I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

— Maika Monroe

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then…

— Brian Austin Green

...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to…

— Jimmy Page

James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because…

— Michael Jackson

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

— James Brown

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

— Paul Simon

I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.

— Denny Laine

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

— Jimmy Page