Groove Quotes - page 3

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. (Rupert Graves)
The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment. View quote
Timothy White
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. View quote
Tom Wopat
When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy. View quote
Tommy Chong
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. View quote
Tommy Chong
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top. View quote
Thomas Dolby
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. View quote
Cat Power
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. View quote
Eddie Van Halen
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. (Wynton Marsalis)
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
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. View quote
Paul Weller (singer)
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. View quote
Kelly Clarkson
We've got to take a chance, fly by the seat of our proverbial pants. There's so much we can do, out in this world, me and you. There's so much we can improve, if you dig my drift, if you catch my groove. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
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. View quote
Arthur Godfrey
You can always tell when the groove is working or not. View quote
Prince (musician)
It would behoove us to groove. View quote
Tony Vigorito
In our endeavor we are never seeing eye to eye; No guts to sever so forever may we wave goodbye. And you're always telling me that it's my turn to move, When I wonder what could make the needle jump the groove. I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book, So don't sit there and think you're off of the hook. By saying there is no use changing 'causeThat's just what you are. That's just what you are. View quote
Aimee Mann
A scheme such as mine is gravely imperiled if it is opposed by "practical" people. Now "practical" people are as a rule nothing more than men sunk into the groove of daily routine, unable to emerge from a narrow circle of antiquated ideas. At the same time, their adverse opinion carries great weight, and can do considerable harm to a new project, at any rate until this new thing is sufficiently strong to throw the "practical" people and their mouldy notions to the winds. View quote
Theodor Herzl