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Song Quotes by Etta James
- 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.…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I sing the songs that people need to hear.
- 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.…
- 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's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
- 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…
- This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really…
- At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.
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- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams