Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collinsis an American musician and singer-songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFunk Singer
Date of Birth26 October 1951
CityCincinnati, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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When I play with other people, I always have to approach it differently. It's a give-and-take thing. You have to listen to other people's ideas, and that's a great thing. We've kind of forgotten how to do that.
gotta save
Well, you know, anything's possible. We gotta save something for a surprise.
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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.
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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.
american-musician ball fit glad whatever
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!
american-musician brash crowd hanging hip older
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.
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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.
helpful relationship terrific
We had no idea how well-connected he was in the industry. And he has a terrific relationship with Snoop, so that was very helpful as well.
american-musician asked dared happy james playing
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.
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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.
people boots records
I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.
artist boots stuff
I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.
ocean taken air
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.
brother player guitar
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.