#funk

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood. ↗

— Holly Johnson

#created #danced #electronic #frankie #funky

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky. ↗

— Curtis Jones

#funky #got #i #james #james brown

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#funky #go #hair #her #i

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#brown #create #falls #funk #individual

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#andy #broadway #bros #cream #funk

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#grown-up #wish #dreams

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead. ↗

— John Green

#death #funky-bones #tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #art

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J. ↗

— Ian Gittins

#criticism #ll-cool-j #music-humor #paul-simon #simon-and-garfunkel

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#character #cornelia-funke #existentialism #words #writers

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#came #catch #catch phrase #everybody #funk