Funk Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Funk". There are currently 117 quotes in our collection about Funk. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Funk!
The best sayings about Funk that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • 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.

    1970 Going Steady.
  • I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

    Order   Law   Rotting  
  • When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  • 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.

    Dad   Latin   Rocks  
  • If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

    Records   Heavy   Groove  
  • I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

    Source: collider.com
  • Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

    Blue   Funk  
    "New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark: In Search of a Nation's Soul". Interview, content.time.com. August 14, 2000.
  • 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.

    Deborah S. Romaine, G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D. (2008). “The Complete Idiot's Guide to Changing Old Habits for Good”, p.139, Penguin
  • Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

  • I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

    Likes   Mets   Funk  
  • 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.

    Way   Aliens   Painting  
    Interview with Todd Solondz, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2015.
  • 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.

    Art   Fire   Musician  
    Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Am I one part R&B? Sure, but I'm also part soulful, and I'm old school funk, I'm pop, I'm rock, I'm hip hop, I'm all of those things. I don't wanna be categorized or labeled as just one thing. Don't put me in the box because I'll break out of the box.

    School   Rocks   Hip Hop  
    Source: www.djbooth.net
  • If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.

    Booty   Funk   Disco  
    "Not My Job: We Quiz Funk Legend George Clinton On The British Parliament". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 24, 2015.
  • The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

    Dad   Blow   Pieces  
  • I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

    FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 06, 2014
  • My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

    Play   Ideas   Space  
  • Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

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

    Jazz   Funk   Hard  
  • Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

    Hippie   Rocks   Guy  
  • 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.

    Needs   Pace   Sometimes  
  • Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

  • Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

    School   Stuff   Fleas  
  • I always go into a bit of a funk when the days get shorter and there's not enough sunlight.

    Enough   Sunlight   Funk  
  • 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.

    Awards   Hip Hop   Soul  
  • 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.

    Song   Brother   Moving  
  • 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.

    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.
  • Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse. Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth...so get the dental floss.

  • Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

    Interesting   Looks   Ems  
  • 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.

Page 1 of 4
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • We hope our collection of Funk quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Funk is constantly growing (today it includes 117 sayings from famous people about Funk), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Funk!