Bootsy Collins Quotes - Page 2

• Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

  Bootsy Collins

  Japan, Trying, Albums

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• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Home, Guitar, Years

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• I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

  Bootsy Collins

  Together, Today, Touring

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• Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

  Bootsy Collins

  Creative Space, Boots, Stuff

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• But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

  Bootsy Collins

  Always Trying, People, Albums

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• Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

  Bootsy Collins

  Thinking, Two, Different

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• We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

  Bootsy Collins

  Smart, Phones, Decision

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• My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.

  Bootsy Collins

  Brother, Player, Guitar

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

  Bootsy Collins

  People, Musician, Boots

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• I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.

  Bootsy Collins

  Stars, Band, Stuff

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• I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

  Bootsy Collins

  Creating, Max, Boots

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• I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Artist, Boots, Stuff

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• A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

  Bootsy Collins

  Dog, People, Together

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• We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

  Bootsy Collins

  Real, Cat, Musician

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• Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

  Bootsy Collins

  Attitude, Men, Talking

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