Quotes About Groove

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Although immersed in leftism since childhood, he never left the shallow end of the pool. He proved so adept at breaking promises because he did not care deeply enough to keep them. What mattered more was that he be seen striking the right pose, finding the right groove, spinning the right narrative.

If you can't boogie I know I'll show you how.

I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

I'm a firm believer that embracing the imperfections of making music is so much of what makes something groove. Getting rid of these imperfections runs the risk of removing a lot of the magic that makes this music really special, and diminishes music's ability to connect with us as human beings. We are all imperfect, after all.

I think the '70s was a very special time. Melodies and rhythm ruled as dancing climaxed.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man: no time to talk.

You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.

Of course, Bounce is all about the dance moves.

My music is just about that bounce and getting everybody moving.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

What I particularly liked about Nineties hip hop was it had a certain reverence for the groove that I hadn't been hearing in a while.

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.

To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.

I actually listen to hip-hop to unwind, so that's really the music I use to clear my mind. I find listening to someone like Dr Dre helps me to take a break and find a groove again.