Bootsy Collins

“It's all about the 'one.' If you can't find the 'one,' you can't have no fun.”

“What we're trying to do is get this concept of funk not as a music, but as a way of life.”

“I just want to be a telephone wire, a conduit for the funk.”

“Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the kick of knowing that whatever it is, it's actually you.”

“Funk is making something out of nothing. It's the attitude.”

“The funk is in your blood. If you ain't got it, you ain't got it.”

“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.”

“The bass is the bottom, the foundation. If you don’t have a good bottom, you don’t have anything.”

“Playing with James Brown was like going to college. I learned so much from him.”

“I just wanted to make people happy. That's all I wanted to do.”

“I was blessed to be in the right place at the right time. My mind was like a sponge.”

“The stage is a sacred place. You gotta give it all you got.”

“Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through you, it comes from you.”

“You don't have to be a star to be a star. If you're a star in your own right, you don't have to be on the big stage.”

“Stay in your own lane. It's cool. Be who you are.”