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To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.

— Les Claypool

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

— James McBride

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

— George Clinton

Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.

— Bootsy Collins

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

— David Bowie

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

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!

— Raini Rodriguez

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

— Miguel

I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels.

— Afrika Bambaataa

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore