Famous Quotes

"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."

Etta James on Car

More quotes about Car

• "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."

  Bill Gates on Car

• "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace."

  Richard Pryor on Car

• "Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."

  Erma Bombeck on Car

• "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone."

  Steven Wright on Car

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

  Steven Wright on Car

More quotes by Etta James

• "Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude."

• "Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool."

• "Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about."

• "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."

• "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."