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Education Quote by Dennis Brown

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

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There is a quiet flex in Dennis Brown admitting he is "still learning": the confidence to keep his ego out of the room. Coming from a musician hailed as the Crown Prince of Reggae, the line reads less like humility-for-show and more like a worldview shaped by constant change: shifting riddims, shifting politics, shifting selves. "Until this very day" does the heavy lifting. It pins the statement to the present tense, not the highlight reel. He is not talking about learning as a youthful phase you graduate from; he's describing it as daily maintenance.

The subtext feels distinctly reggae: survival as education. In Jamaica's music ecosystem, where styles mutate fast and the industry can chew artists up, staying teachable isn't a self-help slogan; it's a strategy. Brown's career spanned roots reggae, lovers rock, dancehall currents, and the complicated pressures that came with fame and instability. Against that backdrop, the line implies hard-won knowledge: talent isn't a finish line, and authority can calcify into irrelevance if you stop listening.

It also works as a bridge to his audience. Fans come to reggae for truth-telling, but Brown frames truth as something you keep earning, not something you possess. The phrase carries a gentle refusal of legend status: don't worship me, walk with me. That posture makes the quote durable, because it sidesteps the brittle myth of the fully formed genius and replaces it with something more human, and more radical: growth as a lifelong rhythm.

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Brown, Dennis. (n.d.). Well, until this very day, I'm still learning. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-until-this-very-day-im-still-learning-141256/

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Brown, Dennis. "Well, until this very day, I'm still learning." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-until-this-very-day-im-still-learning-141256/.

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"Well, until this very day, I'm still learning." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/well-until-this-very-day-im-still-learning-141256/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Dennis Brown (February 1, 1957 - July 1, 1999) was a Musician from Jamaica.

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