Etta James Quotes
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!Etta James
Quotes to Explore
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
Calvin Coolidge -
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
Halle Berry -
My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
J. R. Smith -
I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl -
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
Eddi Reader -
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
Harold Budd -
I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
Imogen Heap -
I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.
Abbie Cornish -
My music is jazz.
Yusef Lateef -
You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
Jacob Artist -
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
Ted Danson
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I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
Maceo Parker -
Y'know, I don't like jazz much. I'll put it on once in a while and listen, and I'll appreciate it.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw -
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull -
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
Martin Mull -
I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.
Rachel Caine
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One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.
Alice Thomas Ellis -
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
Gaston Bachelard -
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion.
Marian Wright Edelman -
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James