Bernie Worrell Quotes


"Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Want)

"Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Ability, First, Universe, Want)

"I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Mother, Talent)

"The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Fight)

"I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Music, Today)

"We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Baby, Now, Singing)

"I talk by playing, not by words."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Talk, Words)

"I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days."
- Bernie Worrell
"As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Writing)

"Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Fame)

"People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: People, Voice)

"I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: College)

"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Mother)

"You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Food, Money, Sex)

"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
- Bernie Worrell
(Related: Art, Providence, School, Students)