Funky Quotes

• I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

  Angelina Jolie

  Tattoo, Mistake, Blue

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• My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

  Jessica Szohr

  Simple, Style, Boho

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

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• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  Sara Blakely

  Blue, Style, Nails

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• I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Rocks, Style, Preppy

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jul 10, 2012

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• Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Artist, Eclectic

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• It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Dance

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• I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  Holly Johnson

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

  Robert Quine

  Stuff, Kenny

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• I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

  Sonny Rollins

  Drinking, Musician, Clubs

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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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• I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Girl, Sexy, High Heels

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• Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

  Rudy Rucker

  Play, Ideas, Fiction

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• I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

  John McLaughlin

  Music, School, Mean

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• I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

  Kristen Stewart

  Dirty, Naughty, Hair

  "Kristen Stewart talks critics & explains her laid-back style (I'm not that girl') in Allure: cover story" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Simple, Vintage, Shoes

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• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

  Terry Riley

  Technology, Dancer, Tape

  Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

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• I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!

  Randy Savage

  Sweet, Sky, Space

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

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• When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Sex, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

  Buddy Guy

  Play, Smell

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• I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

  Scott McClanahan

  People, Want, Ballerina

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• Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.

  George Clinton

  Making Love, Trying, Fax

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• As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

  Gavin Friday

  Getting Older, Getting Old

  Source: bigthink.com

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• God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

  Prince

  God, Religious, Littles

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• White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Kids, White, People

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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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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