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. Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

Gordon Strachan

#3. Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

Isabel Gillies

#4. 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

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

Bernie Worrell

#6. I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.

King Krule

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

Bernie Worrell

#8. Just past hell lies paradise.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.

Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga

Serina Hartwell

#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. Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

Sarah Mlynowski

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

Bernie Worrell

#14. 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

#15. There is a celestial mind-force, a great sympathetic force which is life itself, of which everything is composed.

John Ernst Worrell Keely

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell

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

Bernie Worrell