Funk Quotes

Funk is part of who I am.

— Anitta

We never considered ourselves a funk band.

— Philip Bailey

I love funk and soul and Motown.

— Taron Egerton

Fat man's funk...smells like rump.

— Big Black

We're bustin' out on some serious funk, y'all!

— Rick James

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

— George Clinton

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

— Bootsy Collins

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

— David Bowie

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

If we try to get to know each other you might find you couldn't trade me for another.

— Rick James

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

— Craig Robinson

We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.

— Mark Buehrle

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

— Questlove

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

— Bob Seger

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can…

— Marcus Giles

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all…

— Rick James

The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook…it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

— Bernie Worrell

I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird…

— Adam Shankman

I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am…

— Rush Limbaugh

Everything we do is so soulful. It's actually a blend of gospel, blues, country and funk, but it's all soulful where we're…

— Susan Tedeschi

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as…

— Bela Fleck

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe,…

— Lenny Kravitz

I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.…

— Mos Def

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

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes…

— Viola Davis

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like…

— Haley Reinhart

“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

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing…

— RJD2

Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still…

— Bootsy Collins

When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music.…

— Erik Hassle

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

— Baron Vaughn

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

— Aljamain Sterling

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

“Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.”

— T.F. Hodge

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

— Fred Wesley Jr