Be the first in the room — members see you arrive.
Join the room“Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.”
“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."”
“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.”
“To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.”
“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.”
“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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James Joseph Brown foi um cantor, compositor, dançarino, músico e produtor musical americano. O principal progenitor da música funk e uma figura importante da música do século XX, ele é referido por vários apelidos, entre eles "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk", "Godfather of Soul", "King of Soul" e "Soul Brother No. 1". Em uma carreira que durou mais de 50 anos, ele influenciou o desenvolvimento de vários gêneros musicais. Brown foi um dos primeiros dez indicados ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame em 23 de janeiro de 1986. Sua música foi amplamente sampleada por músicos de hip-hop e outros artistas.
Not who you're looking for? Others named James Brown: American publisher and co-founder of Little, Brown and Compa · American film and TV actor (1920-1992) · U.S. Senator from Louisiana and Minister to France (1766-183 · Scottish first class cricketer, born 1931
