Hannah Bronfman Quotes

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 favorite dance move is the 'Old Man.'

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

I'm not a big disco guy.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

I grew up listening to the greats of the '80s and, thanks to my parents, the '70s - the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie.

I actually came up with Funkasaurus.

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, this is good!' You'd always here it at old family parties, like, Gladys Knight and I'd always love it but I didn't really get to know it and respect it until I was a bit older.

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

Soul music is timeless.

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

Disco is just jitterbug.