Funk Quotes · Page 3

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

If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes…

— Kat Graham

Lately i've been thinkin', baby all the ways I can make you happy and tonight I'm gonna try.

— Roger Troutman

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my…

— John Tesh

I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

— Stephen Mallinder

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

— Judith Hill

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

— Bootsy Collins

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite…

— Ranveer Singh

In the U.K., we always had a special relationship with the audiences because it wasn't 'More Than Words' that broke us: it…

— Nuno Bettencourt

No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small…

— GRiZ

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical…

— Harry Connick, Jr

With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be…

— Joan Osborne

Silly of me to go around and brag about the love I found and say you're the best, well, I can't tell…

— Deniece Williams

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a…

— Jamie Cullum

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was…

— Sufjan Stevens

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

— Phife Dawg

We bring the funk to your festivities. If you think something stank then it must be the peas!

— Will I Am

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

— Andre Benjamin

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

— Kaytranada

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

— Nina Simone

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

— David Bowie

I like timeless and classic pieces with an interesting and modern twist. And I love a little funk!

— Jessica Parker Kennedy

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

— Jim James

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used…

— Killer Mike

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

— Boots Riley

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the…

— Jeffrey Wright

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare…

— Tommy Lee

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

— Anna Todd

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

— Rick James

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

— Xenobia Bailey

When I'm just tryna funk, it's gonna be the Staple Singers, man - Pop Staples. And Ray Charles. Ray could take 'Eleanor…

— George Clinton

People will talk all the funk funk, but then they're quiet when their friends aren't there to back them up.

— Anonymous

“I'm the blues in your left thigh/ Trying to become the funk in your right." -LORENZ TATE/LOVE JONES SOUNDTRACK”

— L. Divine

Every time I see you walking by, I cannot breathe but you don't notice me, but in time you will. I must…

— Roger Troutman

Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse. Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

— Redman

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

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake.…

— JoJo

I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk…

— Marcus Miller

Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug If you feel…

— Q-Tip