Best Funky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.”

“I have seen a lot of funky things atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“In every USA workplace I worked, funky stuff was going on.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.”

Stuff Funky Kenny

Author:Robert Quine

“I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.”

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Author:Sonny Rollins

“I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.”

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Author:Elliott Yamin

“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.”

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Author:Will Hermes

“White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.”

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Author:Narada Michael Walden

“I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it”

Play Smell Funky

Author:Buddy Guy

“You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.”

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Author:Karisma Kapoor

“I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?”

Lasts Heard Last Time Funky

Author:Phife Dawg

“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.”

Needs Real Space Pops Thrill Funky

Author:Prince

“You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky”

Brain Wall Cripples Funky

Author:Laura Nyro

“I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing.”

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Author:Brooke Burke

“I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.”

Mean Beautiful House Company Middle Fields Luxury Hotel Good Food Eclectic Good Company Funky Posh

Author:Amanda Donohoe

“I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.”

Color Make Me Happy Funky

Author:Bobbi Brown

“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.”

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Author:Andreas Deja

“A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.”

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Author:Solange Knowles

“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.”

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Author:Prince

“I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.”

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Author:Rob Chapman

“I think what I am always trying to do is make clothes for every girl to wear, to make things that you are going to accessorize from day to night. I am really trying to focus on casualwear - making your basic sweatpants cool, trendy, and funky.”

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Author:Whitney Port

“Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.”

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Author:George Clinton

“I was a huge fan of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.”

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Author:Jessica Barth

“When I look back, I don't remember the best of the best. I don't remember arena shows with 20,000 people. I remember funky little bar gigs where nobody shows up. The weirdest of the weird are what you retain.”

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Author:Vince Gill

“I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“Mr. Bumpy from Bump in the Night was this funky little guy who lived under the bed and thought eating dust bunnies was a delicacy. He was as cool as he could be, and ate dirty socks.”

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Author:Jim Cummings

“I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop.”

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Author:Adrienne Bailon

“Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.”

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Author:Bart Millard

“I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.”

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Author:Carmine Appice

“I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.”

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Author:David Rees

“I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.”

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Author:John D'Agata

“I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.”

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Author:Cornel West

“I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.”

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Author:Simon Le Bon

“When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I honestly really, really love Topshop. I've bought a lot of booties from there. I think they have a great selection of really funky booties at Topshop. My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They're sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!”

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Author:Adrienne Bailon

“What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.”

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Author:George Saunders

“I have always liked knives. Then somebody gave me one. Then somebody gave me another one. Then I liked having them and started buying them. I started finding ones I liked, ones with funky blades.”

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Author:Tim Duncan

“I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it is simply in virtue of my brain's higher capacity and complexity. A large difference - my cerebral equipment allows me to have such diverse concepts as "hope", "funky", "England", "multiplication", "three strikes" and "the categorical imperative" - but a difference in degree. Wolves, of course, are superior to me with regards to smelling, hearing, and running, and are generally superior to humans in that they don't kill each other.”

Running Virtue Complexity Diverse Funky

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.”

Getting Old Getting Older Funky

Author:Gavin Friday

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