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Etta James Quotes
A few years ago, I thought, Ill never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight. - Etta James Quotes
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didnt have the nerve. - Etta James Quotes
At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. - Etta James Quotes
Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person. - Etta James Quotes
But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage. - Etta James Quotes
I am so happy that I am alive and can walk. - Etta James Quotes
I dont care whos playing. Even if its my favorite artist, Im probably not gonna go and see him. - Etta James Quotes
I figured I could do Its A Mans Mans Mans World, because I believe its the truth. - Etta James Quotes
I like to shop, but I dont like to go out to dances. - Etta James Quotes
I sing the songs that people need to hear. - Etta James Quotes
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. - Etta James Quotes
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock n roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. - Etta James Quotes
Im not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing. - Etta James Quotes
Ive gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and Im the happiest Ive ever been. - Etta James Quotes
Its not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, its about paying tribute to them. - Etta James Quotes
Its the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation. - Etta James 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 Quotes
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I dont know what Im sorry about. I dont. - Etta James Quotes
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. Id like to think I did that. - Etta James Quotes
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself. - 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
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. - Etta James Quotes
Thats 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 didnt even know was there until I let it out. - Etta James Quotes
The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when Im on the stage. - Etta James Quotes
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say Im still vulgar. Im vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? Ive got to do something. - Etta James Quotes
This is an album of songs that Ive always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish. - Etta James Quotes
What happens is, when I perform, Im somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries. - Etta James Quotes
When I look out at the people and they look at me and theyre smiling, then I know that Im loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems. - Etta James Quotes
When Im in my little place there in front of an audience - and its gotten littler because Ive lost weight - it becomes my own world. - Etta James Quotes
When Im performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or Im that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldnt wait to be smokin a cigarette, you know? - Etta James Quotes
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