Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Brown

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Jamaican musician Dennis Brown.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a subgenre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him "The Crown Prince of Reggae", and Brown would prove influential on future generations of reggae singers.

Jamaican - Musician | February 1, 1957 - July 1, 1999

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But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Dennis Brown

We just make music. For I never stop working.

Dennis Brown

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Dennis Brown

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Dennis Brown

Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.

Dennis Brown

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Dennis Brown

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

Dennis Brown

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Dennis Brown

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

Dennis Brown

Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!

Dennis Brown

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Dennis Brown

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

Dennis Brown

Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.

Dennis Brown

Because I used to go and watch him rehearsing for pantomime, and I have adopted some of those priciples, like try to be on time, learn your script, how he approach it, etc.

Dennis Brown

Every day you learn something new.

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Dennis Brown

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

Dennis Brown

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Dennis Brown

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

Dennis Brown

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Dennis Brown

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

Dennis Brown

I sing a lot about love.

Dennis Brown

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

Dennis Brown