The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship. George Clinton More Quotes by George Clinton More Quotes From George Clinton 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 rebel hate parent I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming. George Clinton style kids way 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 rap hip-hop real 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. George Clinton growing-up heart school My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear. George Clinton ability stage figures I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson. George Clinton brother kings hair Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing. George Clinton loved you change simple If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten. George Clinton your think you brain If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive. George Clinton some-people music time people I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that. George Clinton learn like you world My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you put your back into it. Just keep ploughing away. George Clinton dreams me you mother When I'm just tryna funk, it's gonna be the Staple Singers, man - Pop Staples. And Ray Charles. Ray could take 'Eleanor Rigby' and make that funky. George Clinton make just take man The key to looking good in a cape is the way you take it off. You should look like those sword-fighting people, the Three Musketeers. Taking it off, swinging it, that's what makes it cool. George Clinton good cool you people A few people thought I was Bill Clinton, because of the name. I've never complained. Just the fact that you recognise me is enough. Even if you think I'm Chaka Khan. George Clinton name me you people So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd feels like to me. I can jump from 50 years ago to right up to now, and people will be familiar with the songs. And since we never do them the same way, it's a new experience. George Clinton me experience people way The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That's probably one of the biggest displays there. George Clinton biggest now smithsonian Once you reach a certain age with radio stations, you've got to be an oldie but a goodie. If you wanna do something new, you've got to find a new way to present it to people. George Clinton you age people way I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like I've been jamming all day long. But other than that, I'm a granddad, great granddad. George Clinton day great look long I feel lucky and blessed that I got away with the things that I did do. But there's got to be an easier way to do that. I guess people have to go through whatever their time requires them to go through and if they can see it as inspiration, you know, fine. But I'm not taking no blame for it. George Clinton you blessed time people I came in after the Smokey Robinsons, Temptations, Clovers, and Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters. I came along at that level, when there was harmonizing. George Clinton along i-came after level
