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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— David Bowie

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

— Rick James

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

— George Clinton

When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.

— Big Boi

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

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

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

— Ranveer Singh

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

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

— James McBride

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