Funk Quote by Ritchie Blackmore

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

— Bob Seger

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music,…

— John Tesh

My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change.…

— Sandra Bullock

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in…

— George Clinton

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

— Mark Plaatjes

I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the…

— Cristian Machado

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us…

— John Scofield

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

— Judith Hill

The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever…

— Ad-Rock

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

— Fred Wesley Jr

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny…

— Sufjan Stevens

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

— Questlove

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking…

— Baron Vaughn

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a…

— Pauline Kael

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

— Bill Hicks