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“When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.”
-- Etta James

#Hurt #Feel Good #Feelings
“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'd like to think I did that.”
-- Etta James

#Mother #Song #Thinking
“I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And Iâ€™d like to know itâ€™s more than love at first sight”
-- Etta James

#Sunday #Past #Night
“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

#Country #Rocks #Culture
“At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.”
-- Etta James

#Love #Music #Song
“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 hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.”
-- Etta James

#Song #Ends
“And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.”
-- Etta James

#Men #Nerves #Done
“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

#Mother #Play #Piano
“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.”
-- Etta James

#Song #Fake #Musical
“What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.”
-- Etta James

#Worry #Forget #Trouble
“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 don't.”
-- Etta James

#Song #Sorry #Feelings
“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.”
-- Etta James

#Baby #Real #Space
“It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.”
-- Etta James

#Song #Artist #Records
“The two things you can't fake are good food and good music”
-- Etta James

#Two #Fake #Good Food
“I sing the songs that people need to hear.”
-- Etta James

#Song #People #Needs
“The only time that I am really truly happyâ€”when I feel at my bestâ€”is when I'm on the stage.”
-- Etta James

#Stage #Truly Happy #Feels
“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, tipping their fingers.”
-- Etta James

#Dance #People #Theatre
“People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.”
-- Etta James

#People #Phony
“They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.”
-- Etta James

#Dance #Want #Chairs
“In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,”
-- Etta James

#Way #Rage
“People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.”
-- Etta James

#Two #People #Different
“Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.”
-- Etta James

#Nice #Long #Riding
“It feels so good to be happy.”
-- Etta James

#Feels
“I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.”
-- Etta James

#Crazy
“I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.”
-- Etta James

#Persons
“I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.”
-- Etta James

#Kids #Wanted
“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 I mean, and I had a place to stay.”
-- Etta James

#Mother #Real #Mean
“Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.”
-- Etta James

#Children #Attitude #Comedian
“Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.”
-- Etta James

#Healthy #Weight #Anxious
“It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.”
-- Etta James

#Glowing #People #Generations

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