Groove-Oriented Quotes

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala. It's about making music that moves people.

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

Chickenfoot is phenomenal. I can't believe the music we're making.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

Bounce music is uptempo, heavy bass, call and response.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.

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.

Tame Impala is more about impact than innovation, sure, but the music still stuns on contact.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.