"You need power to get freedom and you need freedom to create"
"People get up and drive your funky soul"
James Brown

"You see we are scientists of sound. We are mathematically puttin' it down"
Kool and the Gang, 'Heaven at once' (1973)

"Jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher"
James 'Blood' Ulmer

"In the begining there was funk"
"If your got funk, you got style"
"One nation under a groove"
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Parliament / Funkadelic

"Funk upon a time, in the days of the funkapus, the concept of specially designed afro-nauts, capable of funkatizing galaxies, was first laid on man-child, but was later repossessed, and placed among the secrets of pyramids, until a more positive attitude towards this, most sacred phenomenon, clone funk, could be adquired."

Parliament, 'Prelude to Dr. Funkenstein' (1976)