Funk Quotes

• Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

  Rick James

  Mother, People, Papa

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 15, 2013

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• I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

  Jeffrey Wright

  New York, Smell, World

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

  Questlove

  Smell, Different, Littles

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• Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

  Nina Simone

  Sorrow, Slavery

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• Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

  George Clinton

  Interesting, Looks, Ems

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• I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

  James Brown

  Use, Grades, Seventh Grade

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

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Average

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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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• 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 unending cycle of life.

  Xenobia Bailey

  Cycle Of Life, Unending, Cycles

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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 is so heavy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Records, Heavy, Groove

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• Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

  George Clinton

  Fun, Mind, Done

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

  Xenobia Bailey

  Cycle Of Life, Imagination, Unending

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• Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

  Erykah Badu

  Thinking, Sound, Looks

  "Erykah Badu On Pyer Moss's Honest Activism". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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

  Big Boi

  Soul, Rooms, Footprint

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Funky

  "David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview". Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

  Billy Joel

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Junk

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• Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

  Rick James

  Spiritual, Pain, Mean

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 14, 2014

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• Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
  Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
  If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
  Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

  Branford Marsalis

  Play, Albums, Jazz

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• Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse.
  Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

  Redman

  Rap, Dental Floss, People

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• Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

  Rick James

  Stage

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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Listening, Bees

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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