George Clinton Quotes

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.

Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

I'm not a big disco guy.

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

My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.

Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.

Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

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

I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out of it and put in a guitar or keyboard, it would be considered funk-rock music.

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

I got the idea of what a band should be from listening to Booker T and Otis Redding.

I fell in love with R&B music at a young age. The energy and aesthetic of that genre strike an emotional chord with me.

I really like R&B more than rap.

I can't worry about things that I can't control. That's the best approach, so I've been doing that.

Souljazz doesn't reinvent soul, jazz or the fusion thereof, but it plays all of the above with the passion that drove its forefathers.

There are a lot of people, like myself, who love R&B and will always love R&B.