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Etta James

"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."

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"Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night."

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Donna Grant

"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."

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Donna Grant

"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."

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Donna Grant

"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."

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Donna Grant

"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."

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Donna Grant

"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."

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Donna Grant

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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Donna Grant

"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."

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Donna Grant

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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Donna Grant

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

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Donna Grant

"Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out."

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Etta James
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."

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Etta James
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."

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Etta James
"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."

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Etta James
"That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out."

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Etta James
"I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him."

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Etta James
"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."

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Etta James
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."

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Etta James
"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."

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Etta James
"It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation."

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Etta James
"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."

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