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“Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.”

Play Running Kids Courses Found Parent Majority Productions Copies Broadway My Birthday Groove

Author:Ken Ludwig

“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.”

Source: Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)

“The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated, the inevitable is foreseen. One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about gruesome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.”

Source: Love of life and Other Stories by Jack London

“When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work.”

Ifs Needs Bigs Rocks Type Punk Urgency Punk Rock Groove Roaches

Author:Tony Palermo

“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.”

Thinking Want Play Musician Keep Going Supportive Groove

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.”

Doe Play Able Easy Can Do Player Awareness Band Substitutes Swings Bass Cleverness Groove Bass Players

Author:Jaco Pastorius

“A lot of guys in New York will only play with an edge. They find their groove and that's their groove. to me, once I do that, there's no point in playing anymore because it should always be a mystery. Depending on who you are playing with, there are hundreds of ways of playing. I think that a master can play all those different kinds of time.”

Thinking Way Should Kind Different Play Guy Mystery New York Masters Who You Are Edges Different Kinds No Point Groove

Author:Fred Hersch

“The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.”

Language Notion Fixing Groove Pedants

Book:American Language

Source: American Language

“Oh God almighty, another Detroit monster is Chad Smith of the Chili Peppers. Their music is intoxicating between Flea and Chad Smith. They're contemporary because they're still making good records, but I don't think there's anything new that has a groove and soulfulness. The Chili Peppers just stink of soul-and that's the ultimate compliment. They continue what James Brown created.”

Thinking Stills Soul Records Music Is Ultimate Monsters Contemporary Brown Compliment Almighty Detroit Stink Groove Fleas Peppers Chili Chad Good Records Chili Peppers Soulfulness

Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

Trying Kind Bed Canvas Groove Laying Down

Author:Glenn Kotche

“Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.”

Humans Individual Institutions Tricks Desirable Compelled Procedures Groove

Book:Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

Source: Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective

“If you don't like what you see, stop looking.”

Ifs Aviation Groove Great Aviation Treading Feudalism Pilots And Flying Bodybuilding Training Airborne Bodybuilding Motivation Cockpit Oleanders

Author:Nancy Lopez

“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.”

Thinking Years Shows Kids Talking Five Yeah Genuine Five Years Swimming Listeners Groove Five Year Olds

Author:Adam Schein

“The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.”

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Author:Stone Gossard

“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.”

Years Winning Struggle Rhythm Clicks Groove

Author:Pete Sampras

“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.”

People Want Humans I Can Stories Individual Interesting Groove

Author:Lucinda Coxon

“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.”

Used Names Hip Hop Partners Used To Be Hips Dancer Hops Crew Groove

Author:J. B. Smoove

“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.”

Ifs Wells Two Song Two Things Jam Groove

Author:Mike Gordon

“You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.”

Ifs Years Mean Stills Two Order Three Hours Blow Granted Horns Groove Days Off

Author:Louis Armstrong

“wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in a different key, so I can be as diverse as I can. I'm always trying to push the envelope and not be complacent or happy in one spot. As far as the grooves on this record are concerned, I think we just tried to experiment in that realm.”

Thinking Writing Trying I Can Different Wanted Certain Song Records Keys Concerned Deeper Experiments Spots Realms Diverse Always Trying Highlights Complacent Envelopes Groove

Author:Jason C. Miller

“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.”

Way Mind Humans Faces Singing Best Way Human Mind Your Face Bob Hook Groove Marley

Author:Wyclef Jean

“The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and you get into the groove of the record. Personally I don't raise my voice; my voice is usually lower, more casual.”

Lasts Voice Records Five Raises Relax Casual Groove

Author:Galcher Lustwerk

“I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.”

Trying Years Groove

Author:Anderson Cooper

“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.”

Important Hours Break Four Take Me Groove

Author:Grimes

“The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.”

Long I Can Three Zone Keep Going Exhausted Groove

Author:Grimes

“It's funny, you know - time does travel pretty quickly, and I do have good friends, and the further away I go from them in location, it matters that I keep on the same line and the same groove that I had and preserve that groove with people who I see seldom.”

People Knows Doe Matter Lines Preserves Good Friend Location Groove

Author:Robert Plant

“It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.”

Want Years Has Beens Hard Lasts Artist Difficult My Own One Thing Harder Great Work Things I Love Groove

Author:Gail Ann Dorsey

“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.”

Way Feelings Courses Brain Struggle Cutting Identity Twenties Appetite Adolescence Ongoing Remarks Starvation Daydreaming Sixteen Hormones Retrospect Groove So Sad No One Cares

Author:Kate Christensen

“The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.”

Feels Ends Running Film Records Studios Stuck Features Needles Groove

Author:Matthew Specktor

“There's a lot of hip-hop that would be great with a banjo in it. It would just groove like crazy, and I hope I get to be one of the guys who does that, because it's coming. It's coming.”

Doe Would Be Guy Crazy Hip Hop Hips Hops Groove Banjos

Author:Bela Fleck

“It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.”

Feels Littles Moments Character Shows Home Bits Little Bit Settling Territory Unfamiliar Groove

Author:Brandy Norwood

“Because of my acting career, I've had to bounce from city to city and get in the groove in the studio.”

Acting Cities Careers Studios Bounce Groove

Author:LeToya Luckett

“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.”

Thinking Littles Jobs Drama Everyday Stuck Frustration Everyday Life Family Drama Groove Ruts

Author:Brian Pinkerton

“I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.”

Thinking Guy Lost Driven Plot Melody Annoyed Music Love Groove

Author:Michael Buble

“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.”

Ifs I Can Feelings Song My Own Beats Groove

Author:Gustav Ejstes

“If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.”

Ifs Thinking Fall Easy Brain Track Maps Groove Trams

Author:Philippa Perry

“I really got into psych because everything has a really good groove to it and it's nicely spaced out, but ultimately they are just cool pop songs with a little something else that makes them special and unique. They are interesting and have another dimension to them besides a three chord change.”

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Author:Mike Romano

“To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.”

People Knows Men Feels Firsts Song Natural Beats Groove Cadence

Author:Pusha T

“Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.”

People Moving Player Brother Cooking Bass Drummer Basements Groove Bass Players

Author:John Densmore

“I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.”

Mean Stuff Can Do Levels Groups Rocks New York Aspect Jazz Fingers Solo Session Drummer Snaps Groove

Author:Van Morrison

“When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not as having a meaning or intellectual value. They set activity running in a given groove, but there is no accompanying conscious purpose or meaning.”

Running Purpose Values Given Situation Pure Activity Intellectual Conscious Factors Stimulus Groove

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.”

People Thinking Giving Ends Enough Night Watches Audience Rocks Singing Credit Rising Melody Rock N Roll Transport Toronto Groove Barometer Owning It

Author:Sarah Harmer

“Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.”

Needs Sometimes Facts Company Groove Sharpening

Author:Scott D. Anthony

“My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.”

Play House Policy Beats Groove New Music Disco Funk Techno House Music

Author:Eddy de Clercq

“There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.”

World Feels Done Guy Fun Stuff Love Is Couple Ordinary Scripts Ruins Hopefully Shooting This Guy Love Making Groove Rookies Ordinary World

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“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.”

Together Fighting Groups Musician Exciting Groove Exciting Things Playing Together Fighting Each Other

Author:Phil Collins

“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.”

Ifs Use Computer Rhythm If I Could Groove Trance

Author:Phil Collins

“When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.”

Knows Kind Guy Girl Three Morning Doors Walking Band Knocking Macs Groove

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.”

Writing Years Looks Book Lasts Creative One Day Decided Shallow Diaries Sequels Groove

Author:Andy Cohen

“I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.”

Writing Real Wanted Decided Leaving Wounds Shy Diaries Transparent Groove

Author:Andy Cohen

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