James Brown

Person · Open Library

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174

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1933-05-03

Active to

2006-12-25

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James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American entertainer, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business", "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Brown">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2012 · cited 64,943x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,522x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,219x

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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."”
• “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.”
• “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.”

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