Bernie Worrell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Fame
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Want #Way
I talk by playing, not by words.
-- Bernie Worrell
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Money #Sex #Instruments
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

#Voice #People #Faces
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

#Add #Recipes #Envelopes
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Fighting #Wish #Stories
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Art #School #Students
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Boston #Lessons #Keyboards
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Long #Branches #Taught
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
-- Bernie Worrell

#College
I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Mother #Talent #Natural
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Radio #Today
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Mother #Concerts #Pianist
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

#Writing #Cutting #Track
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
-- Bernie Worrell

#Baby #Singing #Female
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

#Mean #Albums #Want

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