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Bootsy Collins

Read through the most famous quotes from Bootsy Collins




Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.


— Bootsy Collins


#arenas #back #both #day #different

To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping.


— Bootsy Collins


#better #go #instead #keep #learn

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.


— Bootsy Collins


#chill #chill out #come #creative #doing

We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people.


— Bootsy Collins


#i #message #people #relate #want

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.


— Bootsy Collins


#anyway #brash #cats #crowd #early

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.


— Bootsy Collins


#album #finished #get #i #japan

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.


— Bootsy Collins


#because #each #nowadays #other #people






About Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins Quotes




Did you know about Bootsy Collins?

Bootsy has collaborated extensively with Bill Laswell and made appearances on two Fatboy Slim records Illuminati as well as reading a poem at the end of FatBoy Slims's release in the LateNightTales DJ mix series. Bootsy's Rubber Band became the defacto backing musicians for Deee-Lite during a world tour. The record was credited to "Bonzo goes to Washington" (also referenced in the 1985 Ramones song "Bonzo goes to Bitburg" derived from Reagan's starring role as Professor Peter Boyd in the 1951 comedy film Bedtime for Bonzo).

Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals establiBootsy Collinsd him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.

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