Funk Quotes · Page 2

“Those people obviously don't know who I think I am.”

— Fred Wesley Jr

When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

— Ludovico Einaudi

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

— E-40

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

— Bill Hicks

“funk guitar breaks, but the final three require a level of skill”

— Damien Peters

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

— Chad Smith

When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.

— Paul Orndorff

If we try to get to know each other you might find you couldn't trade me for another.

— Rick James

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I…

— Scarface

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as…

— Bela Fleck

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am…

— Rush Limbaugh

I've determined my style - I like to call it elegant funk. You'll see me in some really beautiful gowns but I'll…

— KiKi Layne

I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

— Joe Jonas

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

— Questlove

I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end…

— Cristian Machado

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I'm not dogging…

— Sharon Jones

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Everything we do is so soulful. It's actually a blend of gospel, blues, country and funk, but it's all soulful where we're…

— Susan Tedeschi

“We all get in a funk sometimes. It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.…

— Scott Stabile

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes…

— Viola Davis

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like…

— Haley Reinhart

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still…

— Afrika Bambaataa

When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music.…

— Erik Hassle

People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The…

— Adam Faulkner

“Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven't been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in…

— B.J. Novak

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible…

— Ted Nugent

I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably…

— Miguel Migs

I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's…

— Stephen Mallinder

I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

— Bushwick Bill

I worked in reggae, hip-hip, jazz, funk - all the music I used to relate to.

— Mark Morrison

We're bustin' out on some serious funk, y'all!

— Rick James

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

— George Clinton

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

— Billy Joel

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

— Rick James

The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries.

— Jerry Lawler

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore