Funk Quotes - Page 2

• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  Walther Funk

  Taken, Fate, Dark

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

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• We're in a little funk. I don't think anybody's worried about our lead.

  Mark Buehrle

  Thinking, Littles, Worried

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• I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

  Walther Funk

  Musical, Sopranos, Type

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, - 2004 - Page 83, April 7, 1946.

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• Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.

  Mark Plaatjes

  Running, Needs, Pace

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• There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Jumping, Rocks, People

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• 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 it.

  George Clinton

  Booty, Disco, Knows

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Funk Legend George Clinton On The British Parliament". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 24, 2015.

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• My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Play, Ideas, Space

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• I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

  Rick James

  Roots, Trying, Progressive

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 06, 2014

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• Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

  Martin Amis

  Real, Novelists, Body

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• The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

  Andre Benjamin

  Doe, Needs, World

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

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• The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

  Ray Liotta

  Dad, Blow, Pieces

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• Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

  Chad Smith

  School, Stuff, Fleas

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• I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Littles, Bigs

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  Ikue Mori

  Art, Thinking, Lunch

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• You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

  Colin Mochrie

  School, Band, Typos

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• Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

  Bernie Worrell

  Art, School, Students

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• Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

  Helen Clark

  Blue

  "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.

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• I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably popular, its about creative expression, quality, emotion and artistic integrity. I love and listen to all styles of music and try to blend the influences together into my songs. Including elements of funk, soul, dub, disco, ‘80s sounds and rock

  Miguel Migs

  Song, Integrity, Inspiration

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• Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.

  Phil Collen

  Brother, Artist, Rocks

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  Killer Mike

  Talking, Different, Used

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• The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

  Bernie Worrell

  Add, Recipes, Envelopes

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• I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

  Wynonna Judd

  Enough, Sunlight, Bits

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• I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Likes, Mets, Persons

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• But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives

  Michael Hutchence

  Decision, Sticks, Gamer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be perhaps the first of the defendants to get up on that stand and admit that I am at least partly guilty.

  Walther Funk

  Ignorance, Law, Firsts

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 82, 2010.

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