George Clinton
George Clinton

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

George Clinton
George Clinton

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.

George Clinton
George Clinton

Well, I try to be as funky as I need to get.

George Clinton
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.

George Clinton
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

The whole history of music has turned out to be something perfect. It's all come around. The music we did with Funkadelic and Parliament was the DNA for hip-hop.

George Clinton
George Clinton

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

George Clinton
George Clinton

Once you get to 22 or 23, you're already old school. It's the bubblegum ones that buy records, have fun, party. You get older, you get sophisticated, and you don't go buy no records too much.

George Clinton
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

George Clinton
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

George Clinton
George Clinton

Pay attention to them kids, don't let your feelings be hurt because they taking your place. They supposed to. But if you wanna stay around with them, you ain't got to copy 'em. Just get the ones that's real young, too young to even be copying yet, because you know they gonna be the next thing.

George Clinton
George Clinton

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

George Clinton
George Clinton

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.

George Clinton
George Clinton

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
George Clinton

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

George Clinton
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.