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28 quotes by Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American musician, and singer-songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of...
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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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