Quote

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

James Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Brown
Age: 73 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 3
Died: 2006
Died: December 25
Actor
Composer
Dancer
Guitarist
Manufacturer
Musical Artist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Sound Designer
Barnwell
South Carolina
James Joseph Brown
Jr.
The Godfather of Soul
00004345815 IPI
Mr. Dynamite
Soul Brother #1
Requires
Music
Heart
Love
Brawn
Gotta
Performing

More quotes by James Brown

Image
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
James Brown
Image
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.
James Brown
Image
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
James Brown
Image
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
James Brown
Image
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.
James Brown
Image
When you touch me, good God.
James Brown
Image
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.
James Brown
Image
Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
James Brown
Image
What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
James Brown
Image
I've got soul and I'm super bad.
James Brown
Image
I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
James Brown
Image
Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.
James Brown
Image
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
James Brown
Image
Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
James Brown
Image
Money won't change you, but time will take you out.
James Brown
Image
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
Image
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
James Brown
Image
You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
James Brown
Image
Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
James Brown
Image
We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.
James Brown