Funk Quotations

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

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

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

My friends call my style 'old man chic.' I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I'm always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached an age where I realized that Fela was singing in English, when I got past his accent, I loved the rawness of it, and the funk and the rhythm and the melody.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Were in a little bit of a funk right now but we'll work out of it. We've got a busy week next week and that's just what we need. We'll be back when it gets to tournament time.

We're in a bit of funk right now. We've sustained some injuries that we don't think we can overcome. We're going to have to play a solid game and capitalize on their mistakes to pull out a win.

We're just in a funk and we can't seem to find a way out of it. The last inning, we bust out of it and hopefully that will carry over.

Well before this happened, I was glad the '06 elections weren't being held this summer. The country's in a funk, and it was in a funk before Katrina. But there's a great deal of time for that mood to change.

We've been in a funk lately. We haven't been playing the way we need to play and we plan on playing that way starting Friday.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

There are only so many spots available at the X-Games. But at Sunlight Mountain, the competition is open to all comers. Sponsored riders as well as locals take advantage of the Bring the Funk Freestyle Festival to have a great time and put on an awesome show.

She's been in a little bit of a funk lately, so it's nice to see her drive the ball.

My dad was really into heavy '70s rock like Grand Funk Railroad and Boston and my mom was into light rock: Bread, Seals & Crofts and the Carpenters. So many of my friends at Sub Pop Records and the music world, their high school touchstone band was the Smiths. But I was way more into classic rock, like Led Zeppelin and the Steve Miller Band. I was more into the redneck Midwest music bands more than anything else.

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.

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.

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

He works his tail off. His work ethic is one of the best in the game and he's always trying to improve his game. He just cares so much and maybe that's why he got into a funk last year. He pressed so hard.

We've got to see if we can get something going from the little funk we're in. Obviously, we've picked a bad time to go into a little swoon and it's hurting us.

We've got to see if we can get something going from the little funk we're in, ... Obviously, we've picked a bad time to go into a little swoon and it's hurting us.

Today, especially on the heels of Yahoo!, it's just more indicative of the funk we find ourselves in.

I think we had more energy than them throughout the night, ... I think they're in a bit of a funk now. But I think once they get going, they're going to be one of the top teams.

I think we kind of got into a funk for a little bit, but we've done things to develop our teamwork a little more. I mean, now we're playing better as a team, and that's what it's all about, especially in the playoffs.

It has been a long road trip. We had a nice start in the first half but we got in a funk in the third quarter.

Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.

I think just getting out of the funk we were in and putting together some momentum was the big thing. Once you get a good taste of winning, it's a lot harder to give it up.

We played good defense and moved the basketball in the first quarter, but like all young teams, we got into a four or five minute funk where it's like you're brain dead.

We played today with unbelievable energy. This was the toughest week of the year. We needed a win to get us out of a funk of our two losses.

We came out in a real funk again and struggled to run our stuff offensively. I have a lot of concerns, especially when we haven't played a good game and we're shooting like we are. Things are not falling into place. One thing leads to another, and then your confidence is shot.

You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.

To go undefeated this week, it's all due to my partners, ... I had two great partners (Fred Funk and Tiger Woods), and that's what it's all about. It's about the team.

We still believe in what we've got here. We're going to work out of this little funk ourselves.

Was I in a funk for about a week about that story? Absolutely,

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".

We're not hitting the ball very well right now ... we're in some kind of a funk that we just can't get out of. We've been making contact and hitting it right to (opposing defenders), and when you're not getting hits it affects everyone, including the pitching and defense.

When you finally get up on stage and you're bringing funk for the sake of bringing funk, that's what it's all about. It's just all about self-expression. Find that voice inside of you and let it out through your instrument.

We need to get some of that funk out. We've had some bad games and some losses at home.

We need to get some of that funk out. We have had some bad games, some losses at home and we got a very good team coming into our house tomorrow (Utah) and we're going to have to gear up and get that win.

We were down at half, down in the third quarter. We were just trying to pull out of our funk a little bit.

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

(Vanderbilt-bound quarterback Jared) Funk was on fire. He played up to the billing. McAvoy killed us more than anything. That we did not anticipate. They were able to run the ball.

At the end of a long economic expansion, consumers tend to be overconfident relative to their spending; raising false hopes about the ability of consumers to continue spending. At the beginning of a recovery, consumers remain in a funk even as they accelerate their pace of spending.

Creighton adjusted pretty well with (Nate) Funk out. They're playing at a pretty high level. It remains to be seen how fast (Northern Iowa) can continue to develop with Crawford not there. Then, the quicker they get him back, the better.

I started buying records in the '80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I've been in a little funk lately, been out of rhythm, haven't been playing as well. I'm just trying to be aggressive and mentally strong, and we need it at this time of year. Everybody has to be aggressive. You can't be soft mentally. Nothing casual.

People used to call us a funk band. But it was a little more complicated than that. We were a fusion group made commercial. We had a lot of progressive chord changes and bebop horn lines and then hooks that a child could sing.

As an East Coast artist who paid his dues performing in the clubs of New York City, Redman's inspired rhymes bring the gritty realism of the city to life in our game. His bold lyrics and hard-edged funk beats capture the vibes of the city, from Washington Heights to Harlem and all the way down to Battery Park.

That's what the preseason's for, to get all the mistakes and the funk out.

They seem to be in a little bit of a funk right now, ... They didn't seem to have a lot of jump tonight and we're going really well.

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.

It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.

That kid is a great running back. As the saying goes, he brought the funk -- he ran hard, buddy. He ran real hard. That's why he's a Division I prospect as a junior in high school.

It seemed like all we were watching was Cy Young work. Obviously, we didn't swing the bats too well against him, so you can't expect to win like that. We've got to see if we can get something going, get out of this little funk we're in and finish up strong the rest of the trip.

It was a poor performance and I think we just got too comfortable with ourselves during the winning streak. Right now, I am just in a real bad funk on offense and why, I don't know. It is just very disappointing.

The Reverend reads the speech, makes it his own and it takes on a feel that is both modern and rings of the past. The message of the speech still carries weight today and is complimented by the unified funk grooves the drums bring.

Anytime you're in a funk as a team, everyone wants to do something to get yourself out of it.

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.

I lived in Brooklyn for a couple of years. The community is very close-knit already. I remember it was raining that day, so it was a weird kind of funk on the crowd. It was so endearing to feel everybody coming together. It was almost like a cleansing. It felt super-new, renewing.

I'll have to be at my best to keep up with these young guys. A win would be great. It would allow me to do what I want to do over the next couple of years. Fred Funk gave us all hope after winning this tournament last year.

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

I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use

The guys are doing a nice job and they keep battling. We're just in a little defensive funk right now. It's more mentally than any thing. They just have to keep their confidence levels up there.

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.

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

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