Funk Quotes · Page 4

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

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

— Jim James

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

— Rick James

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

— Anna Todd

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

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

— Judith Hill

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like…

— Haley Reinhart

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes…

— Viola Davis

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would…

— Tom Green

Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all…

— Rick James

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can…

— Marcus Giles

I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe,…

— Lenny Kravitz

I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged…

— Walther Funk

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

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

— Jessica Parker Kennedy

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

— Andre Benjamin

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

— Nina Simone

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

— Kaytranada

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

— Wynonna Judd

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

— George Clinton

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

— Bootsy Collins

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

— Will I Am

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

— Phife Dawg

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

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

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— David First

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

— Dusty Rhodes

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

— Roger Troutman

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out…

— Trombone Shorty

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the…

— E-40

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

— Jeremiah Brent

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to…

— Raini Rodriguez