Funk Quotes

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…

— Pauline Kael

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Eddie Griffin

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

— Craig Robinson

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk…

— Martin Amis

“We all get in a funk sometimes. It doesn't mean you're failing, or ungrateful, or stupid, or lost. It means you're human.…

— Scott Stabile

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

— Afrika Bambaataa

People faked the funk when I was young. There just wasn't a major platform to do it on. You just kind of…

— Everlast

One of the greatest matches I ever saw was Jerry Lawler against Terry Funk in the Memphis Midsouth Coliseum, but there was…

— Jim Cornette

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

— Walther Funk

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

— Kaytranada

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies…

— Jeremiah Brent

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the…

— Alexandra Bracken