Groove Quotes - Page 7

• I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

  Van Morrison

  New York, Mean, Rocks

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.

  Brandy Norwood

  Home, Character, Littles

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.

  John Dewey

  Running, Intellectual, Purpose

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

  Ted Nugent

  Song, Guitar, Play

  "Ted Nugent Tells You How He Wants It". Interview with Russ Karr, www.theswervemagazine.com.

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• I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Sparta, Hardest

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• I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Writing, Leaving

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Girl, Morning, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

  Phil Collins

  Use, Computer, Trance

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Past, Years, Balance

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• There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Couple, Fun, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Play, House, Beats

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Night, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.

  Bela Fleck

  Crazy, Hip Hop, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

  Matthew Specktor

  Running, Records, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable is foreseen. One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about gruesome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.

  Jack London

  Rain, Moving, Air

  Jack London (2015). “Love of life and Other Stories by Jack London”, p.68, Editora Dracaena

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• When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.

  Tony Palermo

  Rocks, Needs, Roaches

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• The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and you get into the groove of the record. Personally I don't raise my voice; my voice is usually lower, more casual.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Voice, Relax, Records

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

  Anderson Cooper

  Years, Trying

  "Little Jazz Man". www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2016.

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• The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.

  Grimes

  Long, Three, Exhausted

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.

  Robert Plant

  Good Friend, People, Doe

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.

  Kate Christensen

  Struggle, Cutting, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Artist, Years, Things I Love

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Joe Sample

  New York, Moving, Player

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• I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

  Andy Cohen

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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