Quotes About Groove

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

I like a nice rumble on bass, openness on guitar and drums that breathe.

Peter Senge shares a similar illustration about a jazz ensemble. "There is a phrase in jazz, "being in the groove," that suggests the state when the ensemble "plays as one." These experiences are very difficult to put into words—jazz musicians talk about them in almost mystical terms. The music flows through you rather than from you."2

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

All the pieces have been arranged with a view to the best possible funk

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.

The flames pitched shadows on their faces. In the forest around them, the coos and shrieks of the lizards and bugs were locked in an ancient groove, a groove so old as to be modern, like Hendrix meeting Fela Kuti.

I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

Good, effective pop music isn't just verbal language. It takes a good physical beat to make you feel something.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

Show a leg or shake a leg.

When I was first going out to funky events, it was a lovely kind of music to dance to - it had such a nice vibe.

I went along, thinking if we pretend all was well, there would come a moment when it would switch the groove from being a half lie to being a more-than-half truth, and then ultimately it would be the whole truth.

The fat moon is past the apex of its arc, rolling westward like a coin following a groove toward a slot, and when it drops, perhaps the vending machine that is this mysterious world will dispense an item so rich in truth that humanity can begin to be cured by it.

Dr. Dog is good summer music.