Funk Quotes

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.
David Bowie

Funky, Considered

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
Bill Hicks

Band, Anymore, Average

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

Small, Old, Listen

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.
Andre Benjamin

Another, Company, Clothing

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

Music, Together, Soul

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
Ritchie Blackmore

Person, Likes, Grand

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

Music, Mother, While

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

Change, Words, Again

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

Real, Before, Off

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
Chad Smith

School, Old, Stuff

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

Music, Style, Side

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

Music, Power, Courage

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel

Love, Music, Father

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

Music, Freedom, Soul

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
Helen Clark

Business, Talk, Blue

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
Big Boi

Leave, Room, Gonna

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

Happy, School, Until

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
Branford Marsalis

Play, Sense, Makes

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

Individual, Create, Line

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

Dad, Wanted, Asked

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
Rick James

Change, Trying, Root

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.
John Otto

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
Bernie Worrell

Art, School, Used

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
Arto Lindsay

Music, Deep, Different

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

Time, Rock, Everybody

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

Around, Else, Everybody

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
Haley Reinhart

Dad, Rock, Different

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.
JoJo

Fight, Feelings, Try

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

Music, Great, Art

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
George Clinton

Around, Surprised

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