Funk Quotes · Page 2

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

— Bob Seger

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

— Helen Clark

We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.

— Mark Buehrle

We never considered ourselves a funk band.

— Philip Bailey

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

— Caroline Rhea

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

— George Clinton

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

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

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

You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's…

— Xenobia Bailey

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once…

— George Clinton

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

— David Bowie

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work…

— Adam Vinatieri

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter

Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.

— Mark Plaatjes

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged…

— Walther Funk

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe,…

— Lenny Kravitz

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out…

— Trombone Shorty

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the…

— E-40

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all…

— Rick James

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would…

— Tom Green

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…

— Marcus Giles

A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for…

— Danny Jacob

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

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

— Ted Nugent

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

— Baron Vaughn

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

— Chad Smith

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

— Bushwick Bill

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

— Paul Orndorff

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

— Damien Peters

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

— Scarface

“If that’s what it takes you pull you out of this funk.”

— Meredith Potts

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

— Bernie Worrell