Groove Quotes - Page 6

• To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.

  Pusha T

  Song, Men, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.

  Ken Ludwig

  Running, Kids, Play

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• A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

  Frank Gambale

  Player, Thinking, People

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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  Dan Auerbach

  Guitar, Play, Hell

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• For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Imagine, Possibility

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• I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.

  Annie Baker

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

  Ani DiFranco

  Way, Causes, Missions

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• That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Eye, Play, World

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• His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sleep, Thinking, Males

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• There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove

  Steven Tyler

  Aerosmith

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• The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  Paris, People, Mad

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Vocabulary, White, Spirit

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• God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is God must be one of those smells that beguile and inebriate the mind, who like a fine drunken horse of water the heart now rides, galloping wild in every direction like a river flooding right through the topsoil of your youth, cutting and eroding a groove that will be your life, a canyon sunk deep into the virgin plains and unsawn forests of your early days.

  Martin Prechtel

  Horse, Spring, Heart

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• Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

  Tana French

  Worry, Anxiety, Mazes

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• There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Girl, Energy, Gone

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• SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Summer, Girl, Mother

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.446, Candlewick Press

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• There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

  Paul Weller

  Artist, Age, Want

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• I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in.

  Tommy Lee

  Crush, Band, Mixtures

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• Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.

  Stevie Wonder

  Records

  Song: Sir Duke, 1976

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• I wore a groove in the kitchen floor with endless trips to the fridge, hoping against hope that I had somehow missed a plateful of cold sausages on the previous 4,000 excursions. Then, for no obvious reason, I decided to buy a footstool.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Bored, Kitchen, Sausage

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

  Hugh Nibley

  Life, Running, Business

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• A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Brain, Tragedy

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.

  David Byrne

  Roots, Culture, World

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  John Densmore

  Brother, Moving, Player

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