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• She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

  Neil Diamond

  Moving, Way, Cherries

  Song: Cherry Cherry Christmas, 1966

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• Whenever I feel I'm working in a groove it's invariably because I feel I am being the benefactor in the situation rather than the beneficiary. I am sharing my art with others, lending my craft to theirs, interest-free with no IOU.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Crafts, Lending

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• Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Guitar, Play, Piano

  "Swingin' Chicks of the '60s: A Tribute to 101 of the Decade's Defining Women". Book by Chris Strodder, 2000.

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• I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Important, World

  "Badass Interview: Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
  The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
  A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
  corner of it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Gun, Rifles

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

  Frances Harper

  Oil, Shining, Ruts

  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.397, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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

  Growing Up, Listening, Band

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• 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.

  Fred Hersch

  New York, Thinking, Play

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• 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.

  Ted Nugent

  Thinking, Soul, Monsters

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• 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

  Trying, Bed, Laying Down

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• 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.

  Peter L. Berger

  Individual, Institutions, Procedures

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• 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

  New York, Stars, Rocks

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• I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Song, Feelings, Behinds

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• The urge to act became the overriding force in my life. It thrilled me. There's a moment with acting when you're in the groove, and you and what you're trying to do are seamlessly one. That happens sometimes, and I'm really happy it can happen to me.

  Rupert Graves

  Trying, Acting, Sometimes

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

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• All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

  Winifred Holtby

  Innovation, Dry, Lord

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Mind, Slides, Want

  "A Year in the Maine Woods". Book by Bernd Heinrich, 1995.

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• As for the flood carving Grand Canyon, why don't they explain to us why the top of the Canyon is 4,000ft higher than where the river (Colorado River) enters the canyon? Why don't they explain to us how rivers miraculously flowed up-hill for millions of years to finally cut the groove deep enough so they could flow downhill?

  Kent Hovind

  Cutting, Colorado River, Years

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• Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

  Harold Innis

  Writing, Expression, Oral Tradition

  Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press

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• 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

  Frustration, Rolling, Nerves

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• I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing.

  Brooke Burke

  Sexy, Mean, Kids

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• 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

  Play, Creating, Rolling

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• That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

  Alfred Bester

  Robots, Free Will, Reactions

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• 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

  Guitar, Singing, Sitting

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• 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

  Song, Feelings, Beats

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Do me a favor?” he whispered. Beth's hold tightened on his hand. ”Anything, what do you need?” ”Hum the Jeopardy theme.” There was a pause.Then Beth burst out laughing and swatted his shoulder. ”Wrath-” ”Actually,take your clothes off and hum it while doing some belly grooves.” As his shellan bent down and kissed his forehead, he looked up at her through his wraparounds. ”You think I'm kidding? Come on, we both need the distraction. And I promise I'll tip well” "You never carry cash." He extended his tongue and swept it over his upper lip. "I plan on working it off.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Hands, Clothes

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