I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That…

I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and…

— Marcus Miller

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

— Tom Curren

I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times; in total…

— Neil Warnock

As a little girl, I remember thinking how great it was going to be, to be a musician when I grew up, how I…

— Lari White

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

— Common

It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've…

— Kamasi Washington

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

— Norah Jones

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

— Baron Vaughn

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore

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

— Bob Seger

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

— Sufjan Stevens

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

— Questlove

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a…

— Pauline Kael

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

— Bill Hicks