George Clinton Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#2. You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate. - Author: George Clinton

#3. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#4. Ain't nothin' but a party! - Author: George Clinton

#5. I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming. - Author: George Clinton

#6. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#7. Free your mind... and your ass will follow. - Author: George Clinton

#8. The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. - Author: George Clinton

#9. Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence. - Author: George Clinton

#10. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#11. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#12. Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership - Author: George Clinton

#13. Look both ways before you cross my mind. - Author: George Clinton

#14. The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship. - Author: George Clinton

#15. The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill. - Author: George Clinton

#16. Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny. - Author: George Clinton

#17. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#18. 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! - Author: George Clinton

#19. Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat? - Author: George Clinton

#20. Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face. - Author: George Clinton

#21. If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all. - Author: George Clinton

#22. I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. - Author: George Clinton

#23. 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. - Author: George Clinton

#24. Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point. - Author: George Clinton

#25. I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it. - Author: George Clinton