George Clinton famous quotes

03-28-2025

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.
-- George Clinton

#Pills #Headache #Bigger
Free your mind and your ***** will follow
-- George Clinton

#Beautiful #Mind #Ass
Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.
-- George Clinton

#Style #Want #You Can Do It
Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.
-- George Clinton

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

#Hate #Parent #Adults
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.
-- George Clinton

#Real #Rap #Hip Hop
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
-- George Clinton

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

#Men #Talking #Use
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.
-- George Clinton

#School #Circles #Tin
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.
-- George Clinton

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

#Kids #Style #Ems
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.
-- George Clinton

#Rip #Thinking #Years
Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'
-- George Clinton

#Thinking #Illegal
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.
-- George Clinton

#People #Needs #Youth
Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
-- George Clinton

#Destiny #Perspective #Perception
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!
-- George Clinton

#Fun #Mind #Done
Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?
-- George Clinton

#Cat #Feels
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.
-- George Clinton

#Hate #Rap #People

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