Bootsy Collins Quotes

• The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.

  Bootsy Collins

  Rocks, Knowing, Water

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• If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

  Bootsy Collins

  Funny, Music, Song

  "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.

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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 funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, Essence, Mind

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

  Bootsy Collins

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Twins

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• Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Philosophy, Sides, Side Effects

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• I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

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  Stars, School, Glasses

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• There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

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  Inspirational, Layers, Higher

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• Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Together

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• Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

  Bootsy Collins

  Important, Fool, Stage

  "Rock and Roll". "Make it Funky", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

  Bootsy Collins

  Religious, Falling In Love, Religion

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• Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

  Bootsy Collins

  Baby, Art, Media

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• Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

  Bootsy Collins

  Art, Reflection, Views

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• You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Water, Waiting, Boots

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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, Smartphones, Make You Think

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

  Bootsy Collins

  People, Boots, Want

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• It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.

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  Ocean, Taken, Air

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• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Play, Cartoon, Trying

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• When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

  Bootsy Collins

  Trying, Originality, Paid

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• When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

  Bootsy Collins

  People, Band, Used

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• I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

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  Should Have, Giving, Important

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• I'd like to have younger people around me and that I'll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

  Bootsy Collins

  People, Focal Point, Involved

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• We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.

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  Mistake, Action, Same Mistakes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That's how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff.

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  Wall, Book, Writing

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• Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

  Bootsy Collins

  Running, Pain, Rejection

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