Bernie Worrell Quotes

#1. 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

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

#4. Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

Peter Kreeft

#5. Celebrate the journey. It's not all about the destination. Savor all of your successes, even the small ones.

Dawn Gluskin

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

Bernie Worrell

#7. The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Marcus Garvey

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

#11. 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.

Bernie Worrell

#12. Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

H.W. Brands

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

Bernie Worrell

#14. It already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

Gayle Forman

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

#17. I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Maureen Howard

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

#21. 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.

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

#24. First the shirt. His chest was so sculpted and beautiful. I could see all the tiny lines chiseled into his abdomen. If he looked this good in the window reflection, I couldn't even imagine how insanely gorgeous he was going to be when I looked directly at him. Next

Vi Keeland

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

Bernie Worrell