I’m the kind of guy who has your back. When you want to go off and solo for ten minutes, I keep that groove going. It’s an important job.
I have found a groove and a combination between originals and mashups that I think works well.
My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can’t lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I’d really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn’t feel natural to me.
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 make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.
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 have an uncomfortable groove, ’cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked ‘release of frustration.’
We do a cover of Charlie Puth’s ‘Attention’ that I really, really love and I think really grooves.
The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don’t feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
A lot of times, you land in a city, and you’re like, ‘This is not my people.’ I’m gonna do the show, but you don’t feel like this is for you. And then, some places, you just go and just fall into a groove, and you’re like, ‘This feels right.’
In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing – which is good for me, as that’s one part of where I’m at. It’s been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.
You can start making films as a child. It’s become easier to find your groove as a filmmaker, and I’m extremely interested in those voices.
Having pop sensibilities from my past and also being a lead blues and sort of rock guitarist allowed me to bring that kind of beachy rock groove.
If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
I’m 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I’m perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.
With the first ‘Toy Story,’ we didn’t know what the hell we were doing. We’d never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.
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.
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.
And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it’s like I have to slowly get back into myself to get back into the groove.
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he’s in this groove. He’s in touch with his heart.
‘Moving Pictures’ still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I’m not nostalgic for old times. I’d love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it’s a tradeoff.
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.
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They’re the ones that are really happy.
I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
I have long been a fan of Holy Ghost! and think they’ve got the best dance grooves around.
With ‘Innerspeaker’ I was trying to do these hypnotic ’60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
I don’t want to be an athlete so much. I groove more with artists and deep thinkers.
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.
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
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.
I think the best time to approach a woman is actually after her workout. When you’re working out, you’re playing your jam, you’re in the groove, and you don’t want to be interrupted. So guys, wait until she’s done getting her sweat on.
You really don’t get into a groove until you play two or three games.
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.
It’s always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that’s just all groove and pocket.
Be it web series, short films, reality shows, what drives and keeps me in the groove is my work.
I find the easiest way to peel ginger is to start with a vegetable peeler to remove the majority of the skin. I then switch to a spoon, which is good for scraping away any remaining skin trapped within the grooves and nooks of the knob.
I don’t dig staying in one groove.
In certain ways I still feel like I’m finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
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