Quotes About Funk

Funk is the unending cycle of life.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

I am a disco king.

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

Remember in any case, that not only the Adept, but anyone with the smallest capacity for Adeptship, is fundamentally an Artist; he will certainly not possess any of those bourgeois virtues which are just so many reactions to Blue Funk.

I like the New York style of funk, the California style of funk, but the South I never felt like - and Atlanta particularly - got the credit for taking their lessons and progressing on it.

I'm just a '70s freak.

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

People are bringing a lot more of that funk element into their music, you know, with Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson - that's one that you never thought you would hear something like that on the radio again 'cause it just sounds so much like the Back Bay and what they were doing with music back then.

If you listen to 'Electric,' 'Entourage,' and 'Been With A Star,' all those records are records that I dug into the crates for to help me create that feeling of old funk. No one makes records like that anymore.

I'm a big rock 'n' roll head, I love country music, I love yodeling music. But I'm still black and funky.

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

Hop on the good foot and do the bad thing.

Göring had hoped to expand his own power base by taking over much of what Hitler's appointee, Speer, was now unequivocally given. It was further complicated by the fact that Walter Funk was the Reichsminister of Economics so that there was a threefold overlap. Those in Hitler's immediate circle manoeuvred and intrigued to increase their own power and prestige

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga. I never been one of these guys who drives cross-country and knows some one-legged sailor who has a boat parked off some pier with a thousand Russian funk records that he stole from the Red Army in 1972.

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