Quotes of Groove - somelinesforyou

“ There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. ”

- Christine Lavin

“ Vanity is what makes the man in a rut think he's in the groove. ”

- Evan Esar

“ If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. ”

- Unknown

“ I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. ”

- Ian Anderson

“ The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ I'm sick of the treadmill. ”

- Andrea Martin

“ For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. ”

- Morton Feldman

“ There comes in all our lives a time... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. ”

- Unknown

“ Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. ”

- Johann Gottfried Von Herder

“ A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Elaine Morgan

“ Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial. ”

- Wesley Snipes

“ Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. ”

- Morton Feldman
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