George Clinton Quotes
The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.
Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!
I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.
Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.
It's the easiest way to stay in the game: By helping the younger kids, they're gonna preach for you.
I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
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.
My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.
