Bootsy Collins Quotes

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• We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with…
• You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it…
• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.
• There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.
• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got…
• I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like…
• We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.
• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
• I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in…
• I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to…
• A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead…
• Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill…
• But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I…
• I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got…
• I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is…
• When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only…
• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up…
• I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together…
• Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to…
• When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to…

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