Quotes About Performance

We saw Michael Jackson and we said, we want to experience what it is to be Michael Jackson-esque. Just entertaining the people and making the world feel happy and dance.

I feel like I might have an idea of what goes on at Jackson-Winkeljohn's, but at the same time, that's why Coach Jackson and Coach Winkeljohn are considered some of the best. They're able to game-plan and bring the best out of their athletes.

I'm sure most actors, after a while, get a bit jaded.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

'Black Radio' was pretty much a jam session.

When I first came to Def Jam, in '06, all we ever did was win, put up big numbers.

I got to jam with Prince, which is amazing.

It's a huge honour to be able to get on stage and jam with an icon.

I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def Jam Poetry' on HBO is just so sick to me.

I'm on a team with LeBron James and Chris Bosh, and they both dress well. It gets competitive. If I don't bring my A game, they're going to outshine me.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

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

With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

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

I saw 'Othello' with Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones.