Groove Quotes

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

  Prince

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• Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling.

  Frankie Valli

  Feelings, Grease, Heard

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• Never lose the groove to find a note.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Jazz, Notes

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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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• 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 get a groove going, time flies.

  Donald Fagen

  Time Flies, How Time Flies

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

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Jazz, Moments

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

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Missing, Attributes

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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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• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Bass

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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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• It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

  Grimes

  Important, Four, Hours

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

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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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• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  Laurel Lea

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

  Wyclef Jean

  Mind, Singing, Hook

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• Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

  Billy Sherwood

  Sometimes, Studios

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• A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

  Chuck Mangione

  Beautiful, Mistake, Passion

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• Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

  Al Jarreau

  Careers, Laughing, Would Be

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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