Groove Quotes - Page 3

• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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• 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.

  Dave Matthews

  Simple, Important, Progression

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• I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do.

  Lucinda Coxon

  People, Interesting, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

  Elaine Morgan

  Thinking, Professionalism, Trouble

  Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Society, Wheels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Song, Differences, Records

  Thomas Pynchon (2015). “Inherent Vice”, p.334, Random House

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• White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.

  Billy Gibbons

  Lying, White, People

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• There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

  Judith Viorst

  Mirrors, Self, Parent

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Tristan Thompson

  Ocean, Kind, Baskets

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Design, Half

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3037, Delphi Classics

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

  Mark Tobey

  Artist, Expression, Individual

  Mark Tobey, Arthur L. Dahl (1984). “Mark Tobey, art and belief”, George Ronald Pub Ltd

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• 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.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, People, Expectations

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  James Connolly

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

  1909 Socialism Made Easy.

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• 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.

  Bill Barich

  Eye, Usual, Way

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• 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.

  John Scofield

  Thinking, New Orleans, Levels

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• 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.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strong, Fear, Cutting

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

  Ziggy Marley

  Philosophy, Moving, Play

  "Musician Ziggy Marley". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Running, Country, New Orleans

  "Marsalis: Racism and greed put blues at the back of the bus". Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

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• 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.

  Christian Marclay

  Mean, Hard Times, People

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• 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.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• 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.

  Carl Paladino

  Son, Years, Lasts

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

  Cat Power

  Guitar, Relax, Locks

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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