Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Sly Stone

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Sly Stone.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds." Crawdaddy! has called him "the founder of progressive soul".

American - Musician | Born: March 15, 1944

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Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

Sly Stone

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

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It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Sly Stone

Time needs another minute.

Sly Stone

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.

Sly Stone

I've got a few reasons why I've got to maintain stability. I've got into wanting people to hear my music. I've got something I want people to hear because I know they'll like it. They've gotta like it! The songs I've been writing are the sort of things you have to like.

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I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.

Sly Stone

Different strokes, for different folks.

Sly Stone

I feel albino musicians could neutralise all the racial problems.

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Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

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Jimmy Ford is the baddest white man on the planet.

Sly Stone

Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.