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Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I’m talking about musician attitude- then you’re lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

Bootsy Collins

My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that’s what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
BOOTSY COLLINS

Brother Guitar Player
I’d like to have younger people around me and that I’ll be involved with them a lot more now, as opposed to me being the main focal point.
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Focal Involved People Point
It’s very important that people realize: the air is being taken away, the oceans are being taken away, the room is being taken away, but we’re so worried about gas prices that we don’t even see this stuff.
BOOTSY COLLINS

Air Ocean Price Room Staff Taken
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don’t have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
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Boots Creating Max
I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I’d like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.
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Band Stars Stuff
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I’m trying to get that finished.
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Albums Country People Trying
During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don’t do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That’s how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff.
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Book Wall Writing
Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I’m talking about musician attitude- then you’re lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.
BOOTSY COLLINS

Attitude Men Talking
We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
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Creations Dumb More Power
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.
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Falling Love Religion Religious
You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.
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Boots Waiting Water
We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we’ve created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we’re still making dumb decisions.
BOOTSY COLLINS

Decision Phones Smart
Funk is the absence of any and everything you can think of, but the very essence of all that is. And saying that, I’m saying funk is anything that we create in our minds that we want to do, what we want to be, but we don’t have the resources.
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Essence Mind Thinking
Recording wasn’t as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
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Fool Important Stage
Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two’s, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!
BOOTSY COLLINS

Celebrate Daughter Equal Mourning Night Wake
Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.
BOOTSY COLLINS

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Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I’m talking about musician attitude- then you’re lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

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Once you lose that musician part -not just the playing, I’m talking about musician attitude- then you’re lost, man. Especially if you started out that way. It feels so good to be back, starting from the ground up.

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