Groove Quotes

• The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Learning
  • Focus
  • Songs

• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  

  Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Note
  • Groove

• 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 Papa Roach
  • Playing
  • Joined
  • Punk Rock

• 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 Pretenders
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.

  

  LeToya Luckett Destiny's Child
  • Career
  • City
  • Acting

• 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 Green Day
  • Up
  • World
  • God

• When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Thinking
  • Groove

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

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Record
  • Groove

• A good groove releases adrenaline in your body. You feel uplifted, you feel centered, you feel calm, you feel powerful. You feel that energy. That's what good drumming is all about.

  

  Mickey Hart
  • Energy
  • Powerful
  • Release

• She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • She
  • Way
  • Moving

• 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
  • Field

• It's a big disappointment. They just jumped on us. Once we started to get into any type of groove offensively or defensively, it was too late.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Disappointment
  • Groove
  • Jumped

• 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 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Guy
  • Crazy
  • Banjos

• What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Rhythm

• 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.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

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

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Groove

• Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Winning

• We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Music
  • Shows
  • Dialogue

• 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.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Hypothesis
  • Groove
  • Prejudiced

• There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Groove
  • Aerosmith

• 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
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Groove

• There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Magic
  • Groove

• The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Fall
  • Sometimes
  • Iron

• 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
  • Kind
  • Guitar
  • Relax

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