I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has…

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

— Big Boi

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

— Bonobo

I don't want awkward shows with people looking at their phones or tweeting. That's something you should do at home.

— Kaytranada

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

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

— Bill Hicks

I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the…

— Cristian Machado

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us…

— John Scofield

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

— Judith Hill

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever…

— Ad-Rock

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

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 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

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore