Quotes About Funk

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.

The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

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 is so heavy.

Man, George Clinton taught me some serious lessons! For a couple of years we were hanging out almost every other day. He'd stay at my house sometimes because we were working so much.

I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

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

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

When you scratch the soul of hip-hop, you find R&B and funk but also reggae.

I love listening to old records. Stuff from the '70s, even disco and funk records and a lot of early rock albums - what's great about those recordings is that you can actually hear the true tones of the drums themselves.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.

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'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

A skiing accident got me into all this. Since I was a physical education major and this limited by physical activity. I took up flying.

Although Funk coined the term vitamines and is thus often given credit for their discovery, most of the real work of determining the chemical nature of vitamins was done by others, in particular Sir Frederick Hopkins, who was award the Nobel Prize for his work, a fact that left Funk permanently in one.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.