Explore Quotes by George Clinton

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

I always try to find the kids that's getting on your nerves - because your instinct let you know they pushing you out the way, you getting old. And you don't let that bother you, have fun! You ain't got to hang out with them, but you can work with them.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

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.

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.

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.

And I always say, when Southern people get on the dance floor, they ain't getting off.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

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

The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Free your mind and your ass will follow