Quotes About Groove

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room.

Put a glide in your stride, a dip in yo' hip and come on up to the mothership

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to keep everyone playing the groove and other things like making sure the piano's in a nice pocket.

Who doesn't love Tupac? Those records have such swagger to them. The groove is just incredible.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

I love funk and soul and Motown.