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Quotes About Grooves

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thats me, he said, motioning to the robot. Thats all of us. We prattle about free will, but were nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
~ Alfred Bester
Bunty is a piglet that comes up with a lot of funny antics. Dancing is among its strengths and I'm glad people are liking the music video where it grooves to popular Telugu songs. I have made the character very likeable.
~ Ravi Babu
It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are houses in Gloucester where grooves have been worn into the floorboards by women pacing past an upstairs window, looking out to sea.
~ Sebastian Junger
Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.
~ Wilson Pickett
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent.
~ George Orwell
With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
~ Kevin Parker
I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
~ Michael Kiwanuka
When the charge exploded, gases filled the hollow cone and pushed the soft walls of the cup towards the walls of the barrel. Pressed against the barrel, the bullet filled the grooves, and there was no windage.
~ Brent Nosworthy
My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.
~ Donovan
He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
~ Thomas Hardy
There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.
~ Mike Portnoy
Sabbath is always some of the best music ever. And the reason is because it grooves. It's funky. It's heavy. It's got lots of great changes, twists, and turns.
~ Robert Trujillo
Grooves are important to John Talabot - they're pivotal. That's the case with most dance-music producers, but there's something especially sleek about the Spanish producer's debut album, 'fIN.'
~ Anthony Fantano
His comb had left visible, parallel grooves through his heavily gelled brown hair, like the tracks of fleeing dinosaurs in a fresh volcanic mudflow.
~ Neal Stephenson
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.
~ Barry Manilow
Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
~ Walter Isaacson
I don't want any of my records to sound like one style throughout. That's why I choose different grooves and songs: tunes that are sensitive and slow as well as pieces that are abstract and fast. The approach I want to take with my records is to give the listener a variety of grooves, concepts, and composers.
~ Jason Moran
These designs came together very recently, and there's a haphazard, accidental quality to them. Resist the easy grooves they guide you into. If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that!
~ Zadie Smith
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