Bootsy Collins American Quotations

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

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.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

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.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

Since Warner Brothers, back in the day, I hadn't never really had nobody that I think that was there, that I kinda felt was working like my right arm.

We were just so happy to be playing with James Brown. We wouldn't have dared asked for any writer's credits, we didn't know anything about that.

Coming from the James Brown school, I had learned a lot of stuff before I got with George. It was from one extreme to the other.

Everyone in the band pretty much knows that whatever they want to do I am there for them, if they need my help or not, I am there for them.

That's pretty much what we try to do. Stay with that one instead of following the Jones, I just like to come up with my own stuff.