Haley Reinhart

My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

American Musician

Suzan-Lori Parks

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

American Playwright

Michael Hutchence

But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.

Australian Musician

Kamasi Washington

Funk could very easily be called jazz, but you call it funk. Does that really matter? People dig that they associate themselves with certain genres, but the genres to me are made up things, like an imaginary world.

Jennifer Lopez

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

David Bowie

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

English Musician

Andre Benjamin

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

Scarface

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

John Otto

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

Helen Clark

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

New Zealander Statesman

Funk is a lively music genre; understand its cultural roots in African American communities.

Music Genre

Funk often carries an upbeat and energetic vibe, suitable for parties and celebrations.

Energetic Vibe

'Funk' music has a unique sound, so not all upbeat music can be described as funk.

Not Always Funky

Funk implies a strong, unpleasant odor; contexts involving decay or uncleanliness.

Strong Odor

The word 'funk' suggests a more intense smell than 'odor' or 'smell,' use accordingly.

Intensity Scale

A funk can mean a temporary state of fear, often without a clear reason.

Temporary Fear

Use 'funk' to describe fear only when context supports the emotional state being temporary or irrational.

Context Matters

When someone is described as being in a funk, it conveys a temporary mood of sadness.

Moody Blues

'Funk' should not be confused with clinical depression, which is a more serious condition.

Not Clinical

'In a funk' is a colloquial expression, best used in informal conversations.

Colloquial Use

 like you're pointing in the right direction it the rod seems to bend a lot easier but if you get you know in a funk right out of the gate sometimes it's just you know you Dan you never feel like you're gonna get it back and I've been on that end of it as well and all you guys have different mates or around you at some point this year how important is

Reel Talk Ep. 2 - Wicked...

 Nothing unusual about that at all, except that these are actually not the buttons that take you to an individual floor. It starts with garage at the bottom, I suppose, appropriately, but it doesn't go up garage, grand floor, mezzanine, one, two, three, four. It actually says garage, funk, rhythm and blues.

Rory Sutherland: Sweat...

 a whole little pregnancy area and like you know just I thought it would be different not really mixed in with general population I was nervous about that at first because I was thinking if there was a fight you know it's very easy for me to you know get funked in - anything could happen and yeah that

Pregnant in Prison PIPE...

 So he created a mix of compas mixed with funk and jazz. As a young man, he played and toured with live bands in the US and in Europe, but had never recorded an album or a song before moving to Canada. It was in Montreal in 1979 that he released his first album called, "Piano."

How record collectors...

 So if the worst-case scenarios happen, what could you do to repair the damage even a little bit, or who could you ask for help? So in the first case, London, well, I could fork over some money, fly to Spain, get some sun -- undo the damage, if I got into a funk.

Why you should define...

 two years after I designed it, which was the "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" campaign that was all over New York. But something happened to it, and what happened to it was, it became very popular. And that is a kiss of death for something serious

Paula Scher: Great...

 what triggers cause you to be depressed or what fun things are going to bring you out of that funk? Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest,

Ariel Garten: Know...

 government had requested a show of support from the United States we were tasked to go in and fly some missions over there as a kind of a show of force the last pass the last mission there was a big funk airplane Township everything

Vietnam POW Escape PIPE No...

 and he said, "Hugh, no one gives a funk about foreign aid." Except he didn't use the word "funk." He went on. He said we need to look after our own backyard first. This is, I believe, outdated, even dangerous thinking.

What does it mean to be...

 Jonah's funk music funk is influenced a lot by jazz and jazz it's influenced by African music so it's cyclical some of my earliest memories of the music my dad and my mom used to play a lot of great