Funk Quotes · Page 3

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

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

“[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

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

— Rick James

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

— Walther Funk

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

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

— GRiZ

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

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

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until…

— Colin Mochrie

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

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

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Questlove

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

— Trombone Shorty

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

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

— Bootsy Collins

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 always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

— Wynonna Judd

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

— Andre Benjamin

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

— Jessica Parker Kennedy

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

— Stephen Mallinder

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

— John Tesh

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

— Judith Hill

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

— Roger Troutman

Terry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.

— Dusty Rhodes

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

— David First

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

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