Best Groove Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.”

Structure Conformity Groove Rut

Book:How to Be Rich

Source: How to Be Rich

“On stuck status? Don't crush the groove, bust a move.”

Work Movement Exercise Groove Stagnant Move Vibrate Elevate Energize

Book:From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“So the earth is shaking Here the word's faking As there's no time for lies. Kiss and dance all nights! In no need of balance Nothing makes sense Get it loose with no excuse. Shake and dance!”

Source: ACross Tic

“I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”

Dance Groove Graphic Novel

Author:Linda Barry

“Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.”

Kind Guitar Rhythm Relax Locks Groove

Author:Cat Power

“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.”

Knows Years Littles Persons Lasts My Own Company Building Son Yeah My Son Transition Last Year Groove Happy Person

Author:Carl Paladino

“If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.”

Ifs Trying Different Play Whole Break Records Fit Speed Ritual Backwards Groove Turntables

Author:Christian Marclay

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”

People Giving Mean Hard Care Sound Break Records Performances Hard Times Who Cares Groove

Author:Christian Marclay

“When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches. You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose. A groove is the best place in the world. Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.”

World Moving Purpose Path Moving Forward Wheels Pauses Routes Avenues Spinning Places In The World Groove Best Place Unwavering Narrow Path

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”

People Lines Fine Nuts Groove Fine Lines Ruts

Author:Christine Lavin

“I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.”

Way Feels Firsts Stars Felt Rocks New York Right Now Albums Finished Solo Destined Rock Star Foresight Mixing Feels Right Groove

Author:Ace Frehley

“A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.”

Ifs Way Heart Play Pain Moving Form Records My Heart Forgiving Stuck One Way Offense My Thoughts Scratches Groove Phonograph

Author:Laurel Lea

“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.”

Thinking Country Reason Games Lost Groove Exporting

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.”

Feels Art Interest Situation Crafts Lending Groove Benefactors Beneficiaries

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.”

Thinking Strong Fear Cutting Stronger Apprehension Groove Faith Hope

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“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.”

Thinking Way Feels Levels Groups Changed Jazz Our Time New Orleans Influential Meter Groove Funk

Author:John Scofield

“A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.”

Way Eye Consciousness Seeing Reader Draws Refuse Versions Usual New Ways Good Writers Groove

Author:Bill Barich

“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.”

World Kind Lasts Culture Common Happened Century Beats Roots Unions Groove

Author:David Byrne

“We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.”

Ifs Way Ideas Reality Moving Form Law Order Language Steps Cutting Roots Screens Our Thoughts Validity Groove

Author:Frank Herbert

“Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.”

Thinking Lines Half Design Originals Slips Accustomed Groove

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

Thinking Mean Desire Lines Practicals Schooled Groove

Author:James Connolly

“That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.”

Said Response Reactions Free Will Robots Groove

Book:Tiger! Tiger!

Source: Tiger! Tiger!

“Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.”

People Want Technology Economy Information Expectations Paid Foolish Setting Settings Digital Online Sensibility Dominant Scenarios Utopian Groove Digital Technology

Book:Who Owns the Future?

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”

Form Artist Individual Expression Linked Groove Lifeless

Book:Mark Tobey, art and belief

Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief

“It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.”

Kind Ocean Baskets Groove

Author:Tristan Thompson

“Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.”

Trying Firsts Play Lines Building Please Guitar Hopefully Appeals Piano Texture Groove

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.”

Want Mind Form Tests Difficulty Hypothesis Slides Noticing Groove

Author:Bernd Heinrich

“As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?”

Years Enough Millions Cutting Higher Flow Rivers Hills Flood Groove Canyons Colorado Grand Canyon Carving Colorado River

Author:Kent Hovind

“Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.”

Language Flow Groove

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing.”

Knows Mean Littles Kids Bits Player Depends Little Bit Stones International Sexy Bars Italian Cds Groove Eros Beyonce Funky Maxwell Cd Players

Author:Brooke Burke

“This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.”

Feels Firsts Wells Has Beens Space Couple Hitting Shifting Fluid Groove Great Experiences

Author:Laurel Clark

“How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.”

People Want Years Mean Ends Moments Passion Depends Explosives Groove Habitat Great Moments Cabaret

Author:Robert Plant

“All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!”

Lord Dangerous Innovation Dry Conventions Resignation Stagnation Groove Clique Adventuring

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”

Writing Years Wells Play Four Stage Band Singing Who I Am Fortunate Get Back Four Years Solo Gigs Pulse Groove Good Bands

Author:Arthur Godfrey

“The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.”

Trying Sometimes Moments Happens Force Acting Urges Really Happy Groove

Author:Rupert Graves

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

Feelings Song Behinds Groove Dance Music

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.”

“I talk very slow. I move very slow. I definitely have that Southern drawl and although I never necessarily participated in the activities that go along with screw. I definitely was a huge fan of screw. Because melodically, I don't ever really sing very staccato or very fast. It's really about a groove; it's really about a vibe.”

Moving Fans Huge Activity Southern Screws Groove Southern Drawl

Author:Solange Knowles

“I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.”

Thinking Knows World Firsts Important Painting Messages Hundred Paint Come Up Ugly Around The World Sensations Womb Groove Diarrhea Frida

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.”

Growing Up Five Growing Listening Band Heavy Dave Groove Funky

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it.”

Thinking Want Jobs Joy Artist Doubt Changed Music Is Entertainment No Doubt Listening To Music Assignments Groove

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.”

Opportunity Sound Records Missing Standards Albums Crafts Songwriting Irresistible Loops Groove

Author:Barry Manilow

“There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.”

Wall Gun Corners Silver Strings Spiders Nests Rifles Rust Groove Sweetheart Flakes

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.”

Ifs Long Matter Can Do Hours Talent Months Machines Sick Tired Episodes You Can Do It Castles Endeavour Pumps Groove Long Hours

Author:Nathan Fillion

“All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.”

Wells Might Running Streets Mountain Singing Madness Range Streams Thread Flood Groove Forsaken

Book:Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.”

Social Existence Shining Oil Machinery Politeness Social Life Glitter Groove Ruts

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.”

Running Moral Society Evolution Morality Wheels Destined Celestial Groove

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“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.”

Way Feels Wells Stills Certain Comfortable Findings Singing Sitting Guitar My Way Acoustics Groove Reggae Acoustic Guitar

Author:Colin Hay

“I suppose the most important thing is to stay interested. It's very easy in life if you get to a place where you're successful to hit the same groove on the record player over and over again because it's safe.”

Ifs Important Easy Successful Records Player Safe Important Things Groove Record Players

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove.”

Important Simple Melody Chords Progression Groove

Author:Dave Matthews

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