GRiZ Quotes

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I like music and dancing.

Some bands sound like one song the whole album through. We've been all over the place because we are punk, hardcore, rock n' roll, metal, reggae - and I think sometimes it might be too much diversity, and kids are lost.

I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.

Somehow, I see music as a garden which has a lot of different styles: contemporary, classic, ethnic, Japanese, rock & roll, and so on. I can enjoy them all, and there is space for them all.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.

The more rocking, the better.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

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.

I like pop music, and I like really weird, strange stuff. It just didn't feel like there was anyone doing both.

That's kinda what happened to me: I listened to jazz, country, R&B, rock 'n' roll. And when I sat down to write a song, I had all these influences comin' through.

We were built to be rhythmic.

I like making all kinds of music, it really depends on the moment. Sometimes I feel like making a weird trap song, and sometimes I can't even attach a track to a genre.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.