Quotes About Legacy

I naturally gravitated first to R&B and pop: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle.

We're different off the court and on the court, but when people say I'm the next Lauren Jackson I don't really mind because look what she's done.

Jacques Cousteau was my hero.

When I was born, my father was in jail. He only had me because it was going to get him a lesser jail sentence... that's exactly... he told me that.

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.

I grew up until I was seven in Jamaica with my grandmother, who I still think of as the greatest person I have known in my life.

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.

My father's from Jamaica.

Bob's whole life is about Africa. It is not about Jamaica.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

Everybody tell me everywhere I go that I'm the closest thing to James Brown they ever seen.

If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a white Scotsman too.

I was LeBron James before LeBron James.

Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.

When Huell Howser died, James Adomian had done Huell Howser for years. As crazy as that impression was, James genuinely loved Huell Howser.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.

James Brown hated me until the day he died.

As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.

At one point or another, everybody gets called 'the new James Dean.'