Quotes by Bootsy Collins - Page 1

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Funny
Music
Fake
Song
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Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Religion
Falling In Love
Religious
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Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Art
Reflection
Views
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The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Knowing
Rocks
Water
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We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boots
People
Relate
Want
All People
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Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Art
Baby
Media
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Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Philosophy
Side Effects
Sides
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There's a magical layer of love that's laced, designed to take us to a higher place.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Inspirational
Higher
Layers
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Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Fool
Important
Stage
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I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Rock And Roll
Rocks
Twins
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The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Computer
Make You Think
Smartphones
Thinking
Nobody Else
Separates
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Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Albums
Finished
Japan
Trying
Album
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We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Action
Mistake
Same Mistakes
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You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boots
Waiting
Water
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You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Gardening
Care
Grows
Plant
Take Care
Water
Wait
Seed
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I'd like to have younger people around me and that I'll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Focal Point
Involved
People
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I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boots
Creating
Max
Time Myself I Can
Time Myself Keep
Wanna
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Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Running
Pain
Rejection
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Dog
People
Together
People Way Talk
Roast
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Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boots
Chill
Creative Space
Stuff
Wild
Chill Out
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I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Artist
Boots
Stuff
Younger
Wanna
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Home
Catfish
Guitar
Had Enough
Ten
Years
Ten Years
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We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Cat
Musician
Real
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We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Brash
Fellows
Anyway
Cats
Crowd
Early
Older
Hanging
Hip
Musicians
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I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Programming
Setting
Today
Together
Touring
Recording
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But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Albums
Always Trying
People
Records
Hope People Doing
Ahead
Hope Always People
Album
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Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Different
Thinking
Touring
Two
Arenas
Nowadays
Recording
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When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Originality
Paid
Trying
Recognized
The Only Thing
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I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Humor
Dose
Giving
Important
Should Have
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When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Band
People
Used
Nowadays
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It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Fit
Glad
Ball
Ball Game
Heck
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To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Add
Life Me Better
Life Your Me
Stepping
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I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Band
Stars
Stuff
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It's very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we're so worried about gas prices that we don't even see this stuff.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Ocean
Air
Gas
Gas Prices
People
Taken
Worried
Important People See
People Important See
Oceans
Room
Prices
Realize
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Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I'm talking about musician attitude- then you're lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Attitude
Men
Talking
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I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boots
Concerts
Musician
People
Selling
Work People Know
Happening
Recording
Sold
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My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Brother
Glad
Guitar
Guitar Player
Inspire
Player
Life Guitar Me
First One
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We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Computers
Decision
Dumb
Phones
Smart
Smarter
Power World Me
Creations
Phone
More Power
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I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Glasses
Mirrors
School
Stars
Star
Draw
Looked
Realise
Youngster
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When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Lessons
Needed
Liked
Dressing
George
Happening
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Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I'm saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don't have the resources.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Absence
Essence
Funk
Mind
Resources
Thinking
Minds
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Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Boat
Riding
The End Of The Day
Thinking
Together
Yeah
Actions
Boils
End Of The Day
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But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Cartoon
Play
Trying
Afford
Tours
Cartoons
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During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That's how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff.
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Book
Wall
Writing
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Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!
Bootsy Collins / Musician
Daughter
Father
Mother
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