Bernie Worrell Quotes

• Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

  Bernie Worrell

  Want, Way

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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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• Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Bernie Worrell

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Fame

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• I talk by playing, not by words.

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• People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

  Bernie Worrell

  Voice, People, Faces

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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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• Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

  Bernie Worrell

  Mean, Want, Firsts

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• My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

  Bernie Worrell

  Mother, Concerts, Pianist

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• I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

  Bernie Worrell

  Mother, Natural Gifts, Talent

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• I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Radio, Today

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• We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

  Bernie Worrell

  Baby, Singing, Female

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• As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

  Bernie Worrell

  Writing, Cutting, Track

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• You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

  Bernie Worrell

  Money, Sex, Instruments

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• I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

  Bernie Worrell

  Long, Branches, Taught

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• The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

  Bernie Worrell

  Fighting, Wish, Stories

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• I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

  Bernie Worrell

  College, Known

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• I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

  Bernie Worrell

  Music, Boston, Lessons

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