Etta James Quotes

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• Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.…
• I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the…
• When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.
• A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
• 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 figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World,' because I believe it's the truth.
• Country music has the great stories.
• I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.
• I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
• You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know…
• You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President – had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She’s going…
• In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,
• I sing the songs that people need to hear.
• The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.
• See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip,…
• People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
• When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
• The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
• I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago.…
• A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't…

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