Dennis Brown quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

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

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.

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

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

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

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.

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

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

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.