It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you. — George Clinton Games Copy Share Image
The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence. — George Clinton Confidence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. — George Clinton Language Copy Share Image
If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten. — George Clinton Brain Copy Share Image
I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like… — George Clinton Day Copy Share Image
The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic… — George Clinton Dna Copy Share Image
The key to looking good in a cape is the way you take it off. You should look like those sword-fighting people,… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off… — George Clinton Business Copy Share Image
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is… — George Clinton Fear Copy Share Image
Testify' went from a clean Motown song to straight psychedelic. Loud and feedback and people was loving it, because Motown was ending… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Pay attention to them kids, don't let your feelings be hurt because they taking your place. They supposed to. But if you… — George Clinton Attention Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be… — George Clinton Change Copy Share Image
I feel lucky and blessed that I got away with the things that I did do. But there's got to be an… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd feels like to me. I… — George Clinton Experience Copy Share Image
I always try to find the kids that's getting on your nerves - because your instinct let you know they pushing you… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“But whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended within the limits of the United States, together with the variety of… — George Clinton General welfare Copy Share Image
The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That's probably one of the biggest displays there. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership” — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it. — George Clinton Funk Copy Share Image
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear. — George Clinton Ability Copy Share Image
I'm not worried about no charts or how long it's been out. Our records never go away. — George Clinton Copy Share Image
