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Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts. -- Bernie Worrell
You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school. -- Colin Mochrie
Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face. -- George Clinton
I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band. -- Bill Hicks
The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk. -- Andre Benjamin
I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer. -- Bob Seger
Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky. -- David Bowie
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. -- Rick James
Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers. -- Rick James
My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it. -- John Tesh
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy. -- Lenny Kravitz
Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it! -- George Clinton
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music. -- Janelle Monae
When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. -- Serj Tankian
There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. -- Afrika Bambaataa
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources. -- Bootsy Collins
Funk is the unending cycle of life, -- Xenobia Bailey
The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries. -- Jerry Lawler
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow. -- Nina Simone
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time. -- Questlove
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I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it. -- Stephen Mallinder
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on. -- Miguel
The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew. -- Bernie Worrell
If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it. -- George Clinton
Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain. -- Rick James
I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out". -- Adam Shankman
I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references. -- Stephen Mallinder
[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that. -- Viola Davis
I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. -- Donny Osmond
Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois "virtues" which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk. -- Aleister Crowley
What isn't on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.) -- Michele Norris
My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
Business can talk itself into a blue funk. -- Helen Clark
If you fake the funk, your nose will grow. -- Bootsy Collins
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that. -- Chad Smith
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense. -- Branford Marsalis
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it. -- George Clinton
Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me. -- Billy Joel
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. -- Chris Carter
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader. -- Big Boi
I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. -- Jeffrey Wright
When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty. -- Will Hermes
To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master. -- Les Claypool
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound. -- Jennifer Lopez
The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow. -- Ray Liotta
One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk. -- Sufjan Stevens
Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental and physical funk. Pick a downhill stretch if you can, and really lengthen your stride. -- Mark Plaatjes
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. -- Ikue Mori
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives -- Michael Hutchence
But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. -- Michael Hutchence
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. -- Jeff Goodell
I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more! -- Raini Rodriguez
I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician. -- Jamie Cullum
Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility. -- T.F. Hodge
Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time. -- Rick James
We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead. -- Mark Buehrle
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producinÂ´ disco inducinÂ´ twin magnetic rock receptors. -- Bootsy Collins
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Caroline Rhea
I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it. -- Bushwick Bill
Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds. -- Erykah Badu
The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations. -- David First
Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that! -- Phife Dawg
There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. -- Elizabeth Bowen
When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements. -- Judith Hill
Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk. -- Mark Plaatjes
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader." -- Big Boi
I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight. -- Wynonna Judd
I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people. -- Joe Jonas
My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music. -- Eddy de Clercq
Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving. -- Tinie Tempah
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use -- James Brown
Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse. Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss. -- Redman
[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz. -- David Bowie
I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. -- Bela Fleck
When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist. -- Killer Mike
I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Steven Sater
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions. -- H. G. Wells
Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body. -- Martin Amis
I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. -- Juan Campodonico
I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over. -- Rush Limbaugh
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. -- Charlie Hunter
The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels. -- Jeremiah Brent
You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting. -- Marcus Giles
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk. -- George Santayana
I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short. -- E-40

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