Christopher Priest Quotes

James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

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.

Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.

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

James Brown really taught me a lot - his lyrics and his performance and whatever he does when he's onstage. I'll always call him a legend, and I'll always respect what he did.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

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

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.

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

You can't hate James Brown! Who hates James Brown?

I think what makes his story unique from others is there is not really one piece of American pop music you hear today that does not have some James Brown in it.

I've been sampled at least 71 times. Me, James Brown and George Clinton, we're the ones who've been sampled the most.

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

People like to compartmentalise music, especially African-American music, but it's really one thing. One very wide thing. I mean, it's like all those great records by Marvin Gaye and James Brown back in the day - there are tonnes of jazz musicians playing on them.

I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.