„Ich gehe heute nacht fort.“
— James Brown
Letzte Worte, zu seinem engen Freund Charles Bobbit, zitiert bei CNN Europe, 25. Dezember 2006
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James Brown
Geburtstag: 3. Mai 1933
Todesdatum: 25. Dezember 2006
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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 Soul, des Funk, war James Brown einer der bedeutendsten Funk-Musiker des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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„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.“
— James Brown
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
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„Look a'here, some people say we got a lot of malice
Some say it's a lotta nerve
I say we won't quit moving
Til we get what we deserve.
We've been 'buked and we've been scourned
We've been treated bad, talked about
As just as sure as you're born
But just as sure as it take
Two eyes to make a pair, huh
Brother, we can't quit until we get our share.Say it loud,
I'm black and I'm proud.“
— James Brown
Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud, written with Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1968)
„A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous, wants to be seen. Nobody likes a nigger. A black man has pride. He wants to build, he wants to make his race mean something. Wants to have a culture and art forms. And he's not prejudiced. I am a black American man. Now you go ahead and print it.“
— James Brown
On personal identity (1982) — as quoted in "Funk's founding father," Rolling Stone Magazine, 2007-01-10.
„I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is difficult to find things to talk about, to use similar reference points, and to operate at the same speed of life. Another problem is that both sides usually don't want the same things at the same time.“
— James Brown
Brown, J. & Eliot, M. (2005). I Feel Good: A Memoir of a Life of Soul , pp. 247-248. New American Library: New York.
„Try me. Try me.
And your love will always be true.
Oh I need you (I need you).
Hold me. Hold me.
I want you right here by my side.
Hold me. Hold me.
And your love we won't hide.“
— James Brown
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
„Our love is kind of stalled, baby.
But it ain't about the sex.
I'd trade the roses and the negligees
If we could just connect.
I go deeper when you look into my eyes.
There's a place where neither one of us can hide.
And it's up to us to reinvent the game.
Love it when you call my name.“
— James Brown
I Got the Feelin' (1968)
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„When you kiss me,
And ya miss me.
You hold me tight,
Make everything all right.
I break out - in a cold sweat heh!“
— James Brown
Cold Sweat, written with Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1967)
„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.“
— James Brown
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
„Come here sister... Papa's in the swing.
He ain't too hip... about that new breed babe.
He ain't no drag,
Papa's got a brand new bag.“
— James Brown
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag' (1965)
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„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.“
— James Brown
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.
„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.“
— James Brown
"Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, 2006-06-12.
„Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.“
— James Brown
Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
„Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.“
— James Brown
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.
