George Clinton Quotes

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• Free your mind and your ass will follow
• Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?
• Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.
• The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.
• Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.
• Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the…
• Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
• Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the…
• Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'
• Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you…
• I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.
• I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind…
• You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other…
• I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
• The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
• I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've…
• When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate…

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