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Recalling his father winning a gold medal in rowing at the 1948 Olympics in London: He was in a coxless pair with a man called Jack Wilson. I`ve got a fantastic picture on my desk of the two of them getting their medals on a pontoon at Henley. I imagine they were playing the national anthem and my dad is very rigid, `this is the way to behave`, and Jack Wilson is loose and groovy and looks like he should be mixing a martini. I sometimes wished my father could take that pleasure in himself.

- Hugh Laurie

There was a time when you were supposed to question everything the director said, to create some kind of conflict, out of which creativity would be born. But I love it when they tell you what to do, you know: Start there, walk over there, say the line and I`ll shout: Cut!" I think it`s groovy. When we were filming with Steven Poliakoff, his first note to me - he prefaced it with: "That was marvellous", which is always a good start - anyway, his note was: "Don`t wiggle your eyes about so much," and you know, my heart leapt. Because I know that. I know how to not make my eyes wiggle about."

- Bill Nighy

It made me so happy. On my song Whoops Now,` I even used the lyrics, `I`m out in the sun having fun with my friends` (from that song). There`s also the Turtles` `Happy Together` and the Association`s `Windy` and Simon and Garfunkel`s `Feelin` Groovy.` Those songs are all precious moments to me. They`re about just plain feeling good." - In a Rolling Stone `93 interview.

- Janet Jackson

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

- Pat Morita

We were raised to be here now, and to be compassionate, and that`s all we took from it, too. Neither of us became particularly groovy people.

- Kristin Hersh

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

- George Thorogood

MTV didn`t call. I guess I wasn`t hip and groovy enough.

- Dan Fogelberg

I did the craft/home design and groovy decor bit of the show, ... a lot of great information being exchanged between women.

- Anna Johnson