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Funk Quotes

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

Rock Always Everything Funk Liked

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

Branford Marsalis

Play Jazz No Sense Going Sense Funk

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

Sound Funk Mixed

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

People Always Still Surprised Funk

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

Music You Lake Early Railroad Funk

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

Blues Rock Cousins Line Like Funk

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.

Think You Create Kind Line Funk

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Business Blue Talk Funk Itself

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

Trombone Shorty

Things Happen Jazz Rock Happen Funk

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.

Music Green Deep Own Modern Funk

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

School Old Old School Stuff Funk

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

Music Roots Think Jazz Well Funk

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Ritchie Blackmore

Person Never Who Grand Funk Likes

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

Music Style You Evolving Side Funk

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

Say Band Average Funk Than Touring

I love funk and soul and Motown.

Love Soul Motown Funk I Love

The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.

You Know Listen Line Bottom Funk

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

Change Trying More Progressive Funk

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

Leave Room Wherever Because Funk

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

Energy Want Brown Somebody Who Funk

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

Soul Early Through Pretty Funk Era

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Music World Bring Different Funk

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.

Small You Listen Old Heavy Funk

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.

Me Rat Out Up Little Funk

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