Bootsy Collins Quotes

The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.

There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.

Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

I'd like to have younger people around me and that I'll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.

We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!