Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Dennis Brown

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Jamaican musician Dennis Brown.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Dennis Brown

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.

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.
We just make music. For I never stop working.
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
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.
You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.
You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.
Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
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!
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
Certain rhythms just have certain moods.
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.
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.
Every day you learn something new.
Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
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.
Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
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 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.
You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.
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.
I sing a lot about love.
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.
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