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When you get a groove going, time flies. -- Donald Fagen
You can always tell when the groove is working or not. -- Prince
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary
A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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
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
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'. -- Ace Frehley
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove. -- J. B. Smoove
Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job. -- Blair Underwood
I don't dig staying in one groove. -- Chico Hamilton
You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. -- Timothy Leary
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove. -- David Byrne
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio. -- Billy Sherwood
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. -- David Byrne
Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it. -- Mickey Hart
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart. -- Tom Wopat
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
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. -- Phil Collins
When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles. -- Ben Saunders
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
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
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
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
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove. -- Eddie Van Halen
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. -- Kelly Clarkson
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. -- Joni Mitchell
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
In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well. -- Colin Hay
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. -- Wynton Marsalis
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
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
I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it. -- Ziggy Marley
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
This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove. -- Laurel Clark
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
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top. -- Thomas Dolby
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. -- Tommy Lee
I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person. -- Carl Paladino
People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back. -- Brandon Flowers
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
I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home. -- Marc Bolan
If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often. -- Christian Marclay
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. -- Afrika Bambaataa
In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name 'Chanchullo'; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into 'Oye como va,' still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana's multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it. -- Ned Sublette
There's nothing like an Aerosmith groove -- Steven Tyler
I like to groove a little bit! -- Leon Bridges
Never lose the groove to find a note. -- Victor Wooten
Get out of your rut and into the groove... -- Ray Wylie Hubbard
A beat is a moment in the life a groove. -- Wynton Marsalis
Never lose the groove in order to find a note. -- Victor L. Wooten
I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove. -- Anderson Cooper
When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens. -- Ozzie Smith
Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove. -- Stevie Wonder
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me. -- Neil Diamond
Grease is the word, is the word that you heard, It's got groove, its got feeling... -- Frankie Valli
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. -- Jacques Barzun
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul. -- Trey Songz
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants. -- H. L. Mencken
I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows. -- Quincy Jones
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'. -- Phil Lesh
My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music. -- Eddy de Clercq
Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio. -- LeToya Luckett
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
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
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
To me, groups of musicians playing together, not fighting each other, but playing a groove together is one of the most exciting things to listen to. -- Phil Collins
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
It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good. -- Tristan Thompson
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove. -- Ani DiFranco
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that. -- Paul Weller
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house. -- Chet Faker
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' -- Jon Landau
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. -- Laurence Housman
Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove. -- Zack Snyder
Eddie is the firehouse of this team. When he gets it going, he gets it going. He is definitely tough to stop when he gets in a groove. -- Shawn Marion
When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click. -- Pete Sampras
Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have. -- Phil Anselmo
I want to stay close to the groove of people's individual human stories. I can't see that there's anything more interesting than that. That's just me. That's what I do. -- Lucinda Coxon
I'm not going to lead my show talking about my kids, but will I perhaps mention my five-year-old swimming? Yeah! I think listeners groove on that because frankly, it's genuine. -- Adam Schein
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
I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere. -- Mike Gordon
I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life. -- Brian Pinkerton
A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. -- Frank Gambale
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
The Faces do not, as some have recently alleged, play badly. They are more than competent, especially at creating a mid-Sixties Rolling Stones-styled groove, as their excellent version of 'Memphis' proves. -- Jon Landau
If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. -- Gustav Ejstes
I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics. -- Glenn Kotche
Being the foundation is what I live for, some people call it being in the pocket, some people call it a groove. I think it's the heartbeat. There's nothing that feels better than that. -- Tommy Shannon
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. -- Mose Allison
It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves. -- Flea
The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic. -- Jerry Leiber

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