Artists, Authors, and Musicians
- James B. Johnson (born 1944), author of science fiction novels
- James Johnson (artist) (1803–1834), English artist
- James Johnson (musicologist), late 18th-century Scottish musicologist
- James P. Johnson (1894–1955), New Jersey jazz musician, known for his "stride" piano playing
- Super Chikan (James Johnson, born 1951), American blues musician
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- Jamey Johnson (born 1975), American Country music artist
- James "Stump" Johnson (1902–1969), St. Louis blues musician
- J. C. Johnson (1896–1981), songwriter and jazz pianist sometimes erroneously known as James C. Johnson, best known for his collaborations with Fats Waller
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“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)