Funk Quotes - Page 3

• Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

  Walther Funk

  Russia

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.

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• You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.

  Xenobia Bailey

  Beautiful, People, Different

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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  Haley Reinhart

  Dad, Latin, Rocks

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• The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

  John Scofield

  Thinking, New Orleans, Levels

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• I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.

  Hamid Drake

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Jazz

  Source: the-attic.net

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• I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

  George Clinton

  People, Stills

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• When I was in London I found house music and techno, and I love that s - t. It's my go-to music. It's the closest for me to the old funk of James Brown and the repetitive dance music that I like from the soul music. I'd love to do a live album, like a little bit old school but still progressive, influenced maybe by more electronic music. I like everything, but I don't know anything about music. So it comes in to a lot of different ingredients.

  Erik Hassle

  School, House, Soul

  Source: wwd.com

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• Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.

  Leon Uris

  Wall, Ghetto, Men

  LEON URIS (1961). “MILA 18”

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• Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Dream, Disappointment, Dark

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hope, Expectations, Desperation

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspirational, Dance, Ideas

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• The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.

  David Bowie

  Men, Laughing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I was talking about the art from...if you look at the art from George Clinton albums there are two or three artists he worked with...I made her listen to my album too so all the images are from jokes I made. I wanted it to look like the thoughts that are coming out of my brain which is what comedy is anyway.

  Baron Vaughn

  Art, Talking, Two

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries.

  Jerry Lawler

  Legs, Arteries, Harder

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

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• I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

  Chris Carter

  Jazz, Hard, Ifs

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• One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Memories, Father, White

  "Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.

  Bob Seger

  Summer, Winter, Play

  "Bob Seger talks Tom Waits, Tom Cruise, Leonard Cohen, and Civil Wars" by Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. November 9, 2011.

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• I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Kids, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Way, Aliens, Painting

  Interview with Todd Solondz, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I scoured myself with lye soap from head to toe to get the evil funk of demon snot off me. I have flossed things the gods never meant to be flossed and used things that would be toxic to most living organisms. All to sanitize my body for your chewing pleasure.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Toxic, Would Be

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.60, Macmillan

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• 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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• I don't think there's any way you can worry about how many errors or how many bad plays you've made. You can get into a fielding funk just as quick as you can hitting.

  Marcus Giles

  Thinking, Errors, Play

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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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• The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.

  Sharon Jones

  Awards, Hip Hop, Soul

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