Jules Shear Quotes

I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.

Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties.

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

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.

I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

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.

I just want to entertain.

I like to groove a little bit!

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

When you're listening to club music, there's no reward. The reward isn't, 'Oh, here's the chorus, here's the lyric that makes sense.' You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there's no conclusion.

Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.

James Brown was the Monday-to-Friday guy. He was the hardest man in show business. He was like your dad and your uncle: He showed up, and he hit hard.

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 energy to the mainstream.

If people aren't dancing, we're not doing our job.

I create my music so you can go to the club and have fun.

Floor is where I get to express myself. That's, like my party time, like my play time.

Not only do I have fun in the ring, but I have fun walking out to the ring. I have fun walking away from the ring.

I love to have fun when I do a song.

I like music and dancing.