I love funk and soul and Motown.

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

— Bill Hicks

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

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

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

— Questlove

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

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

— Bob Seger

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

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

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

— Judith Hill

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

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

Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a…

— Mark Plaatjes

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

— George Clinton

Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down…

— Eddie Griffin