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James Brown war ein US-amerikanischer Musiker. Er spielte Orgel, Klavier, Gitarre und Schlagzeug, trat aber fast ausschließlich als Sänger und Tänzer auf. Außerdem war er Bandleader und Musikproduzent. Durch seine herausragende Stellung im Rhythm and Blues und Soul der 1950er und 1960er Jahre, aber vor allem durch seinen maßgeblichen Einfluss bei der Entstehung eines neuen Stils des Rhythm and Blues, des Funk, war James Brown einer der bedeutendsten Musiker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Mai 1933 – 25. Dezember 2006
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„Ich gehe heute nacht fort.“

Letzte Worte, zu seinem engen Freund Charles Bobbit, zitiert bei CNN Europe, 25. Dezember 2006
Original engl.: "I'm going away tonight." - articles.cnn.com December 26, 2006 http://articles.cnn.com/2006-12-26/entertainment/james.brown.dead_1_doo-dah-james-brown-cough?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

James Brown: Zitate auf Englisch

“This is a mans world.
This is a mans world.
But it would be nothing, nothing
Without a women or a girl.”

It's a Man's Man's Man's World, written with Betty Jean Newsome, from It's a Man's Man's Man's World (1966)
Song lyrics

“I'm going away tonight.”

Last words as quoted by James Brown to Charles Bobbit, his longtime personal manager, just minutes before death on December 25 2006

“When you kiss me,
And ya miss me.
You hold me tight,
Make everything all right.
I break out - in a cold sweat heh!”

Cold Sweat, written with Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1967)
Song lyrics

“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”

Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4

“It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.”

Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4

“Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn … The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.”

Statement on national TV during the 1968 riots in Washington, DC after the Martin Luther King assassination. http://likethedew.com/2010/04/26/james-brown-and-his-changing-times-rockin-the-white-house-8

“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.”

Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4

“This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.”

On having children — as quoted in Brown, J. & Eliot, M. (2005). I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul, p. 248. New American Library: New York. ISBN 0-45121-393-9

“Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.”

Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York. ISBN 0-02517-430-4

“Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.”

Pop Chronicles: Show 51 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. (Part 7) https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19832/m1/#track/5, recorded 1.7.1970 http://archive.is/w3aj.

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