Funk Quotes

Funk is part of who I am.

— Anitta

I love funk and soul and Motown.

— Taron Egerton

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

— Big Black

Get up on this funk!

— Rick James

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

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

— Craig Robinson

We never considered ourselves a funk band.

— Philip Bailey

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

— Mark Buehrle

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

— Bob Seger

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

— Helen Clark

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

— T.F. Hodge

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once…

— George Clinton

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

— David Bowie

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 only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

— James Brown

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

— Miguel

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

— Rick James

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

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

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would…

— Tom Green

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

— Rick James

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

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

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

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio…

— Afrika Bambaataa

A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for…

— Danny Jacob

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

My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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

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

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

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

— Bill Hicks

When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

— Ludovico Einaudi