James Brown Quotes on Music
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too ... I got a song about that ... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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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.
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Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying?
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I felt like the blacks had gotten lost in musical trends in some ways, and got away from what they were really looking for.
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I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.
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I thank God for the Apollo Theater. When I saw those people, that was the awards.
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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.
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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
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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.