Funk Quotes · Page 4

I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I…

— Gerald Green

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

— George Clinton

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

— Bootsy Collins

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

— Phife Dawg

We bring the funk to your festivities. If you think something stank then it must be the peas!

— Will I Am

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

— Andre Benjamin

I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.

— Kaytranada

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

— Nina Simone

I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and…

— Bonobo

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until…

— Colin Mochrie

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical…

— Harry Connick, Jr

In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn't 'More Than Words' that broke us: it…

— Nuno Bettencourt

No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small…

— GRiZ

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a…

— Jamie Cullum

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was…

— Sufjan Stevens

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be…

— Walther Funk

[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 always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

— Wynonna Judd

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

— Jim James

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

— Big Boi

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used…

— Killer Mike

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

— Boots Riley

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

— Anna Todd

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

— Rick James

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the…

— Jeffrey Wright

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare…

— Tommy Lee

People will talk all the funk funk, but then they're quiet when their friends aren't there to back them up.

— Anonymous

“I'm the blues in your left thigh/ Trying to become the funk in your right." -LORENZ TATE/LOVE JONES SOUNDTRACK”

— L. Divine

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care.

— Stephen Mangan

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

— Xenobia Bailey

When I'm just tryna funk, it's gonna be the Staple Singers, man - Pop Staples. And Ray Charles. Ray could take 'Eleanor…

— George Clinton

I know that a man ain't supposed to cry but these tears can't hold inside losin' you would end my life you…

— Roger Troutman

I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk…

— Anitta

Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse. Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

— Redman

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be…

— George Clinton

Every time I see you walking by, I cannot breathe but you don't notice me, but in time you will. I must…

— Roger Troutman

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be…

— Joan Osborne

Silly of me to go around and brag about the love I found and say you're the best, well, I can't tell…

— Deniece Williams

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts…

— Charlie Hunter

Styles move too fast to be partial to anything. If it's funk, that's enough for me. I don't care how fast or…

— George Clinton