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.

Etta James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012

Topics

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For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

Joan Jett

ChallengeMeBe DifferentConsistent

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.

Sugata Mitra

HappyLearnYouStudentsForce

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

Steven Hall

GoodWritingThoughtEndLoseFind

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Mary Ellen Chase

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Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers.

Michael Showalter

TimeWinningBusyCrisisFansTrack

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Lou Reed

MusicThoughtNowRightAlwaysArts

If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

Cher

WomanBlackYouCountryVoteCould

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

Colin Cunningham

ForwardLookDownEveryScript

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

Chrystia Freeland

PracticeCapitalismDifficultRid

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

Anthony Goldbloom

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Women are more fashion conscious and are paying a lot of attention to what's happening globally.

Priya Sachdev

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I only work with people that are mysteries.

Sharon Van Etten

WorkPeopleOnlyMysteries

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