Etta James Quotes
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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We begin by stating that religion is unbelief. It is a concern, indeed, we must say that it is the one great concern, of godless man...
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
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Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
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You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
