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"My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them."
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Source: James Brown, Bruce Tucker (2014). “James Brown: The Godfather of Soul”, p.63, Head of Zeus
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