James Brown Quotes

“Those people obviously don't know who I think I am.”
― Fred Wesley Jr.

“James Brown had many guises, many names: Crip, Music Box, The Hardest Working Man In Show Business, Mr. Please Please Please, Butane James, Soul Brother Number One, Skates, The Godfather of Soul...He was His Own Bad Bad Self, the Sex Machine, Black Elvis, the Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk, The Original Disco Man, Universal James. But before any of them, he was simply a dancer doing the James Brown.”
― R.J. Smith, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown

“And you say to yourself, They will remember him. He will make them remember him. He's hollering from the back of the bus of history, just so they'll know who he is. So Vanessa will know him. And Cecil. And Maddy. And Laura. And Helen. And even little Ni Ni and the twins Malcolm and Malik. And in knowing who he is, maybe they will one day know who they are.”
― James McBride

“Soul Brother James Brown thrilled us with his soulful songs and unique dancing steps. Foxtrots remain vital as long as his music wafts through a room, calming the selective rage in a rantipole, and lending grace, without a smut of geck, to the docile feet of a combo. His song SEX MACHINE lives on in the hearts of those that rumbled through the voice of the halcyon days of the 1970s.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu