Funk Quotes

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

— Big Black

I love funk and soul and Motown.

— Taron Egerton

Funk is part of who I am.

— Anitta

Funk is the unending cycle of life,

— Xenobia Bailey

Get up on this funk!

— Rick James

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

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

— Ludovico Einaudi

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

— E-40

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

— Bill Hicks

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

— Mark Buehrle

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

— Caroline Rhea

We never considered ourselves a funk band.

— Philip Bailey

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

— Eddy de Clercq

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

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

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

— Mark Plaatjes

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

— Anonymous

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

— Everlast

A lot of people can kick a ball a long way, but sometimes you get in a little funk and you work…

— Adam Vinatieri

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

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

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

— Sufjan Stevens

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

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

But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be…

— Walther Funk

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

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some…

— Leon Uris

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

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still…

— Afrika Bambaataa

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

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

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

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

— RJD2

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

— T.F. Hodge

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

— Helen Clark

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

— Bob Seger