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Mother Quotes by 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.…
- My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy,
- I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what…
- My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
- 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,…
- 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…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman