Groove Quotes

• You can always tell when the groove is working or not.

  Prince

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• When you get a groove going, time flies.

  Donald Fagen

  Time Flies, How Time Flies

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• A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Jazz, Moments

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

  Ozzie Smith

  Athlete, Thinking, Competition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• 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

  Powerful, Energy, Body

  "Mickey Hart returns attention to world music". www.cnn.com. December 02, 1998.

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• When you're in a groove, you're not spinning your wheels; you're moving forward in a straight and narrow path without pauses or hitches.  You're unwavering, undeviating, and unparalleled in your purpose.  A groove is the best place in the world.  Because when you are in it, you have the freedom to explore, where everything you question leads you to new avenues and new routes.

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, World, Spinning

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Jazz, Notes

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• There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.

  Max Weinberg

  Music, Feelings, Pockets

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

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Change, Science

  "Locksley Hall" l. 181 (1842)

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• If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

  Timothy Leary

  Moving, Doing You, Needles

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• I don't dig staying in one groove.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Stay Strong, Jazz

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• Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

  Tommy Chong

  Spiritual, Artist, World

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Records, Heavy, Funk

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• When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

  Tommy Chong

  Ideas, Brain, World

  Interview with Brian Polk, www.avclub.com. January 30, 2008.

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• Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

  Keith Urban

  Running, Distance, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Missing, Attributes

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Mind, Etching

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

  Mike Gordon

  Dream, Thinking, Order

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• Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Flow, Language

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• I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Play, Supportive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

  David Byrne

  Band, Scene

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• 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, Dialogue, Shows

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• In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

  Art Linkletter

  Song, Light, Secret

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• A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.187, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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