Funk Quotes · Page 3

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

— Bernie Worrell

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

— Aljamain Sterling

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

— Bootsy Collins

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

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

— Walther Funk

“[Coordinate No°82] La definizione di Funk è “Making Something Out of Nothing” Creare qualcosa, praticamente dal niente.”

— Veronica Vitale

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

— George Clinton

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

— Rick James

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

— Alyson Stoner

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

— Mark Plaatjes

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

— Eddy de Clercq

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk…

— Ikue Mori

I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I went and got a James…

— Kamasi Washington

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is…

— Killer Mike

The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,…

— David Bowie

What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues.…

— Michele Norris

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite…

— Ranveer Singh

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

— Walther Funk

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In…

— Justin Peck

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

People faked the funk when I was young. There just wasn't a major platform to do it on. You just kind of…

— Everlast

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the…

— Anonymous

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

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes…

— Kat Graham

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk…

— Martin Amis

Terry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.

— Dusty Rhodes

Lately i've been thinkin', baby all the ways I can make you happy and tonight I'm gonna try.

— Roger Troutman

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

— Judith Hill

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my…

— John Tesh

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

— Stephen Mallinder

I like timeless and classic pieces with an interesting and modern twist. And I love a little funk!

— Jessica Parker Kennedy