Quotes from Dennis Brown


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


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.


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.


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.


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


We just make music. For I never stop working.


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


I sing a lot about love.


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.


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


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


No man is an island. No man stands alone.


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.


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


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 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.


Every day you learn something new.


Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.