Quotes About Groove

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

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

Musicians sort of knew this already—that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

The bassist -- always the bassist.

It's hard to dance if you just lost your wallet. Whoa Where's my wallet But, hey this song is funky.

If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.

It's about knowing how to make a groove happen and keep it going so others can play off it.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

I can appreciate people for being able to go that fast with their left hand, man. But I just can't groove to that beat. I'm sorry. It's just like somebody sweeping the floor or something - tik tik tik tik tik. It just doesn't really jam to me.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.

Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

This dream the world is having about itself includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail, a groove in the grass my father showed us all one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell something better about to happen.

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

Jazz shows us how to find a groove with other people, how to hold on to it, and how to develop it.

AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!