"I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500."
-- James Brown
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Reader Comments(1 of 8)
Stratat 2-28-2008
It's quality, not quantity, Mr.Brown
jacash0087at 11-28-2008
He's just saying he wrote more songs than they did. He didn't say his music was better. Just said he wrote more songs.
Micheleat 2-29-2008
And let's see if YOU are remembered in a couple of hundred years....
Christopherat 10-08-2008
The James Brown phenomenon will live long after many of the so called "greats". He was black and he did something with nothing...along with feeding, clothing,and educating many poor under priviledged children. He will be sorely missed.
Kerouakat 3-01-2008
I feel dead.... I knew that I would....
Deeat 3-01-2008
It's easy to write 5500 songs when each one is a minute long and contains 5 notes.
G3M1N1at 10-08-2008
lol I like james brown but that is true tho
pat 3-01-2008
Definitely a retard.
reefsaverat 3-01-2008
Referring to reader comment #1-- that goes for both music and women.
But JB was great at what he did.
Sabsat 3-01-2008
How do you write a song when you can't read or write?
kuttie38at 10-10-2008
r u retarded
music isnt about reading and writing its about the way you make it and what u listen to what makes you feEll good
cause i wll know I FEEL GOOD
Georgia Peachat 3-01-2008
Ok, now I'm hot!! Your comments about James Brown, the God Father of Soul, have gone too far! Who gives a damn if you couldn't understand the words the soul of the music was all that mattered! LOL Did anyone really ever know what in the hell the lead singer of KISS was saying? James Brown forever! Live on playa, it was definetely "A Man's World".
blahhhat 3-01-2008
#7 "SABS"
you are a racist peace of shyt, your one of the people that get mad at rich black people or ones that have more money than u so u go cry lol
Bert Venturaat 3-01-2008
5,500 all in the same key...
John Reaganat 3-01-2008
Alas, poor Beethoven only managed nine symphonies.There's more music in two bars of the ninth than in Mr. Brown's entire ouvre