Bernie Worrell Quotes

#1. Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.

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#2. The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

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#3. Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

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#4. Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

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#5. I talk by playing, not by words.

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#6. Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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#7. My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.

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#8. I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

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#9. I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

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#10. The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook ... it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.

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#11. We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

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#12. As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

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#13. I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

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#14. I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

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#15. You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.

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#16. I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.

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#17. People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

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