Danceability Quotes

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.

Reggae, oh man. It's the ultimate music. The positivity. The musicality. The whole cultural expressionism of it. The danceability. Just the cool factor. The melody factor. Some of it comes from a religious place. If there were a competition of who makes the best religious music, it would definitely be the Rastafarian reggae.

Making music you can dance to is very important to me.

A good record is one where I can tap my toes. I always say let your feet do the thinking.

When it comes to the music, the traits you got to have in order to make lit music, club music, to have the swag with it, to have the lingo - I got those traits, you know what I mean?

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

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music.

If it doesn't make me dance, I don't want to put it out.

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

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.

When it comes down to it, it's all about good music and what makes people react. That wins over everything else.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

I think you can move to everything, but with some music you just want to sit still. Like Claude Debussy - I couldn't dance to that.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

I want to rock till I drop. I love rock and roll music. It keeps you young.

I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

As soon as we wrote the beat for 'Romeo,' I knew it was a running song. I was thinking about it in terms of the body. What do you want to do? It's not a song you want to dance to.

With a lot of pop music, they just have one song and a good beat, but there's not necessarily that much talent.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.