George Clinton Quotes

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.

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.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

I'm adventurous and I'll eat anything. I eat a fair amount of junk food, but not junky junk food. Nothin' colorful. I mean, there's junk food, then there's colorful junk food. Stuff in cheap little packages. I never eat nothin' pink. I'll do the occasional jelly sandwich, but when I eat junk food I'll balance it out with prune juice so it don't stay around long. I drink a quart of prune juice every other day. Some chicks can't stand the sight of it, but I'd rather lose a little pussy than be stuffed with shit.

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

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

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.

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.

I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe; I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all or drown in my own shit...

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.

Fuck it; put it in a bucket, and take it to the stage!

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

If it wasn't for flash backs, I wouldn't remember anything at all.

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.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Free your mind... and your ass will follow.