Bernie Worrell
Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr.was an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell was described by Jon Pareles of The New York Times as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth19 April 1944
CountryUnited States of America
I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
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.
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
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.
My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.
I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
I talk by playing, not by words.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Usually, I just do what I want, because I got it that way.