Quotes About Groove

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a chance to get out of the bar.

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

He was a hip cat a hep cat a cool cat a bad mad rad cat Oobie-do John the Sax Man Scat Man the long sleek cat man!!

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

I listen to a lot of reggae.

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.

I like something you can hum along to.

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.

Anything with a beat is meat,

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

I love to dance in the disco, but that's about it.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

He actually wasn't too bad. For a big cat doing the mambo.

I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.

I remember one of my favorite all-time records was by Edwin Starr: 'Stop Her on Sight.'

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.