Funk Quotes
90 quotes by 72 authors
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I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
— George Clinton
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Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying…
— Bootsy Collins
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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
— Helen Clark
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I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.
— Bushwick Bill
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I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
— Bootsy Collins
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When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when…
— Will Hermes
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When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
— Caroline Rhea
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When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we…
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all…
— John Scofield
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I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to…
— Steven Sater
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The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.
— David First
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I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
— Bill Hicks
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove…
— Lenny Kravitz
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix…
— Janelle Monae
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Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
— Chad Smith
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Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.
— Tinie Tempah
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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is…
— H.G. Wells
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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of…
— Leon Uris
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I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Who Wrote These Funk Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 90 Funk Quotes, led by these top contributors: