Funk Quotes - Page 4

• Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.

  G. Alan Marlatt

  Loneliness, Sadness, Focus

  Deborah S. Romaine, G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. (2008). “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good”, p.139, Penguin

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• Question: Why is that MC's be wack
  And major labels wanna sign that crap?
  A-yo...funk that!

  Phife Dawg

  Rap, Hip Hop, Labels

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• A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

  Pauline Kael

  Believe, Cities, Good Movie

  1970 Going Steady.

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• Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

  Janelle Monae

  Enemy, Wonder, Hills

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that people can get your music, and hopefully in the course of that, people will want to see you live, around the world shows. It might get you to where you get to travel all over the planet. 'Cause now people are hungry: "Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them."

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

  Donny Osmond

  Mother, Growing Up, Railroads

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• A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for the underscore and song producer for this new show called "Phineas and Ferb."There is nothing like a successful animated show to get your chops up. You have to do every style - action, adventure, romantic, suspense, spy, poignant, rock, funk, big band - delivered on a deadline.

  Danny Jacob

  Song, Adventure, Writing

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No, man." So I started fooling around with the bass.

  Marcus Miller

  Player, Men, Fit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Am I one part R&B? Sure, but I'm also part soulful, and I'm old school funk, I'm pop, I'm rock, I'm hip hop, I'm all of those things. I don't wanna be categorized or labeled as just one thing. Don't put me in the box because I'll break out of the box.

  Kevin michael

  School, Rocks, Hip Hop

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The Smiths anymore. But then there are plenty of people that do only listen to five bands and six albums and that's it. My playlists are massively varied. There's never a theme throughout, it's never like everything is based in funk or based in reggae or whatever. It's 210BPM gabber-style techno and 40BPM reggae in the same list and it's like, yeah, they work.

  Adam Faulkner

  Mean, People, Different

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• I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Interesting, Titles

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Play, House, Beats

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Some cultures don't have a separate word for music and dance. To my knowledge, this notion of listening to music without dancing is a Western creation. I can't think of any artist that I love that doesn't inspire movement in some form or another. I guess Tangerine Dream or early Vangelis or something like that, you're not really going to dance. But on the whole, I feel like dancing and music are so naturally intertwined. I feel like subconsciously, that's the goal whenever I'm working on music. It's kind of the defining thing: Does it got some funk to it, basically?

  RJD2

  Dream, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever... All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Thinking, People, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Sound, Care, Film

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Kids, Rocks, Years

  "Superfly Co-Founders Jonathan Mayers & Richard Goodstone on Bonnaroo's Future and Teaming With Live Nation". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. June 8, 2015.

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• When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

  Caroline Rhea

  Pain, People, Royal

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• When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.

  Will Hermes

  Hero, Men, Musical

  "A Surprising Record From Gil Scott Heron". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. February 11, 2010.

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• I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

  Adam Shankman

  Video, Really Weird, Extremes

  Source: collider.com

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• I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

  Bushwick Bill

  Order, Law, Rotting

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• I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

  Bela Fleck

  Thinking, Roots, Mixtures

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• This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
  This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal.
  This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit,
  What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Player, Opposites

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• A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Taken, Should Have, Class

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• You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  New Orleans, Play, Style

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• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  Eddie Griffin

  Hippie, Rocks, Guy

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