Etta James Quotes About Singing

Quotes about: Singing

• 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

  Music, Mother, Song

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Aug 28, 2013

• 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 stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

  Etta James

  Depressing, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Sep 21, 2013

• 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

• The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

  Etta James

  Music, Feet, Joy

  Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.17, Da Capo Press

• 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 that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

  Etta James

  Song, Waiting, Forever

• 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 to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

  Etta James

  Song, Forever, Singing

• When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

  Etta James

  Singing, Singing The Blues

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