American musician (1933–2006)
He built funk from the ground up — stripped rhythm and blues down to interlocking drums and bass, then rode that groove harder than anyone before or since. The blueprint every hip-hop producer samples, the stage move every performer steals, the reason "Soul Brother No. 1" still means something fifty years later.
Brown started as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia, then rose in the mid-1950s fronting the Famous Flames with the hit "Please, Please, Please". By the 1960s he'd become a dynamic live force — Live at the Apollo, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", "I Got You (I Feel Good)" — building a reputation that earned him the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 as one of its first ten inductees. In the late 1960s he abandoned blues forms entirely and began emphasizing stripped-down interlocking rhythms, fully establishing funk by the early 1970s with the J.B.s on tracks like "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex…
Sourced, dated quotes from James Brown
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.
I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works.
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.
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.
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
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