Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Funk. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Funk Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including Maya Angelou,Charles Baudelaire,Jancee Dunn,Prince,Giuseppe Mazzini for you to enjoy and share.
I live in an atmosphere of music.
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
[On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.
Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it.
Music is the fragrance of the universe.
Let there be bass.Bass-- Leo Fender
Come out of that closet, baby, the air's so bright and disco out here.
The blues is a low down achin' chill,
Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.
About Soul Punk:
There was this moment where I worried FOB really wasn't coming back so I tried to make a hit record out of an art project.
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal.
This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit,
What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.
Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!
There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
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.
The band geek has liquor?
Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.
Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'
Music is the soul food.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
I have a secret love of jazz.
jazz is punk for old people. I guess that explains it, because I don't like punk, either.
Music is an outburst of the soul.
In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.
Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.
Polka will never die.
True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.
Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
Smells like teen spirit.
I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.
My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.
Disco...is great for healing.
My heart and soul is still music.
Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.
[The blues] is the antidote for sadness and depression.
Music and fashion inspire each other.
Funniness is the wild card in the pack.
Joy Division throbbed in the background.
I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.
Joy keeps the soul alive.
I sold my soul to rock and roll.
My week is full-tilt boogie. I wake up every morning, and the singular thought in my head is that maybe today is the day that I'm going to find an artist who is so amazing, an artist who will change pop culture. I'm in hot pursuit, always.
If the lords of the underworld can't bring me out of this funk, no one can.
Smell is the voice of the soul...
The "down and dirty
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?
When I die, so does hip hop.
I associate music with fun and joy.
My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren't glitter, well, that only left one other option.
I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.
Music is the shaman of my underpants.
a furtive groove
I'm like old shoes, I've never been hip.
One night I was layin' down,
I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,
I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.
'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.
Music keeps the soul alive.
Music makes my soul happy.
I'm a big hip hop fan.
I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
Jazz was my first love.
Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.
For the last day or so there had been a certain amount of coolness in the home over a pair of jazz spats which I had dug up while exploring in the Burlington Arcade.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
I am in the zone, the perfect balance between manic and drunk, I am mellow, I'm cool, cool as cats. I've found the answer, the thing that takes the edge off, smoothes out the madness, sends me sailing, lifts me up and lets me fly.
I love being grungy and dirty.
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.
Music and love are the wings of the soul.
You know, your clothes may say disco, but your eyes say rock n roll.
Tis an ill wind that blows no minds
Music is soul of the spirit.
Music is in my DNA!
Jazz is the language of the emotions.
Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands ...
Fizz Ed is gym class,
Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.
Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.
The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.
Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.
Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?
Rap helps me connect emotionally.
Joy is the vital air of the soul.
Music awakens my spirit.
I'm not cool, I'm weird!
You rock so, you rock so, you dip so, you dip so, you skank so, you skank so, and don't be no drag! You come so, you come so, for reggae is another bag!
Music is the strength of the soul.
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
I am a complete jazz nerd.
Jazz stands for freedom.
I was born with music inside me
Only you can take you to Funkytown.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.
Strains of Saturday night filtered in from the street - an
Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
I'd always loved hip-hop.
This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson
or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter
has come up with.
I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots
Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment
I am not the blues, I am jazz. I want to be present in the moment, not wallow in it.