Funk Quotes · Page 2

“funk guitar breaks, but the final three require a level of skill”

— Damien Peters

When Terry Funk, Harley Race had world titles, it meant more.

— Paul Orndorff

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

— Rick James

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

— George Clinton

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

— Billy Joel

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

— Rick James

The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries.

— Jerry Lawler

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I've determined my style - I like to call it elegant funk. You'll see me in some really beautiful gowns but I'll…

— KiKi Layne

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

— Walther Funk

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

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

— Questlove

“[Coordinate No°82] La definizione di Funk è “Making Something Out of Nothing” Creare qualcosa, praticamente dal niente.”

— Veronica Vitale

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

— George Clinton

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

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

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

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is…

— Killer Mike

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk…

— Ikue Mori

What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues.…

— Michele Norris

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

— Baron Vaughn

I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible…

— Ted Nugent

I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably…

— Miguel Migs

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

— Bootsy Collins

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

— Aljamain Sterling

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

— Scarface

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

— Rick James

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

— Everlast

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the…

— Anonymous

Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.

— Mark Plaatjes

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

— Walther Funk

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In…

— Justin Peck

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

— Eddy de Clercq

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

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter