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- Nov 07, 2020
I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That's probably one of the biggest displays there.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Along
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.
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- Nov 07, 2020