James Brown

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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.


— James Brown


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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.


— James Brown


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Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.


— James Brown


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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


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I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.


— James Brown


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Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.


— James Brown


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Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.


— James Brown


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I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.


— James Brown


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I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.


— James Brown


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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.


— James Brown


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Johnson was the one who convinced Brown to go to riot-torn inner cities in the wake of the King assassination Brown was a staunch Republican. Brown refused to listen and thus the album Live at the Apollo was released. On both recordings the tonal structure is bare bones.

James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006) was an American singer songwriter musician and recording artist. He is ranked seventh on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time. "
Brown died on Christmas Day 2006 from heart failure after becoming very ill two days earlier and being hospitalized for hours.