And I try and accept all kind of music, and I love ballads, funk, soul, jazz, even calypso music I enjoy sometimes.
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.
Because that is it now, you see, to be a successful musician now, a singer or an artist, you have to deal with it on a professional level.
But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
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.
Certain rhythms just have certain moods.
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.
Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.
Every day you learn something new.
I sing a lot about love.
I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.
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.
I'd say a more drama - my father is more a dramatist.
I'll admit that I've been around people associated with drugs and that perhaps was not good because people get branded.
If I should go and say, I'm going to produce all my stuff myself, I would be selfish.
Jah is love, or God, whichever way you might accept it.
Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
No man is an island. No man stands alone.
Some of them people are crazy though, you know, because like I've noticed over the years that I have been involved in the business, whenever you find an artist reach to a level wherein a lot of people is getting to know of him, you find they always come up with some crazy rumors.
Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
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.
Usually, first I would run down the song then I would just take one take, and after that I wouldn't need another one.
We just make music. For I never stop working.
We just want tell about what is happening now - is what we intend to do.
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.
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!
Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.
You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.
You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.
You have certain musicians, when you work with them, it give you a certain flavor, as I say before... So it's all about variation.
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.
You keep learning, you keep advancing, and you never stop learning, don't care how great a musician might be, or a singer or artist.
You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
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