Funk Quotes · Page 3

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

You're just a lover out to score and I know that I should be looking for more.

— Deniece Williams

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

We're gonna dance on the funk and make love on this song.

— Rick James

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

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

— L. Divine

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

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

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies…

— Jeremiah Brent

People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson -…

— Ne-Yo

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do…

— Arto Lindsay

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really…

— Michael Hutchence

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying…

— Bootsy Collins

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at…

— Will Hermes

Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out…

— Mark Plaatjes

If you listen to 'Electric,' 'Entourage,' and 'Been With A Star,' all those records are records that I dug into the crates…

— Omarion

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

[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

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

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

— Andre Benjamin

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 go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I…

— Gerald Green

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

— George Clinton

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

My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

— Alyson Stoner

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

— Rick James

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