Funk Quotes - Page 5

• With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be a great career move, but all these things - singing with the Funk Brothers and the Dead, singing a Dolly Parton song - is great. I'm welcome to all these different worlds, and that's been wonderful.

  Joan Osborne

  Song, Brother, Moving

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• If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

  George Santayana

  Reality, Hypocrisy, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Dialogues in limbo. Platonism and the spiritual life. A long way round to Nirvana. The prestige of the infinite. Ultimate religion”

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• What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues. Chamber Music. Reggaeton. Gospel. And a whole lot of Prince. (I am a Minnesota gal through and through.)

  Michele Norris

  Ipods, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

  Steven Sater

  Rocks, House, Listening

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• The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

  David First

  Inspiration, Free Jazz, Tradition

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Real, Writing

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• They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Men, Lust

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.389, Everyman's Library

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• I was sometimes doing DJ stuff and working in a record shop in Tokyo. That place was a very unique shop. It was the place lots of DJs came to get used and rare records. It had a lot of jazz, funk, Latin and seventies rock.

  Miho Hatori

  Latin, Unique, Jazz

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• I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

  E-40

  College, Thinking, Effort

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• I've played death metal, punk rock, hardcore, funk... I've done it all. And all there really is music and at the end of the day, anybody who has a record and puts out a record that's basically the same song 13 times over on one record; to me they're just cheating the fans.

  Cristian Machado

  Cheating, Song, Rocks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Musician

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

  Viola Davis

  Uptown, Mars, Sometimes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Cat, Artist, Soul

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't watch cable news at night. So I can honestly tell you that I am not in a funk, I am not depressed, I'm not suicidal, I'm not thinking it's over.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Suicidal, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

  Tinie Tempah

  Style, Sides, Grime

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview With Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• [David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

  David Bowie

  Jazz, Selling, Bowie

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental and physical funk. Pick a downhill stretch if you can, and really lengthen your stride.

  Mark Plaatjes

  Needs, Pace, Sometimes

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