Quotes About Groove

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

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

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

You'd be surprised what you'd catch on my playlist.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!

Never lose the groove to find a note.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that.