Etta James Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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, Rhythm And Blues

  FaceBook post by Etta James from Jun 16, 2012

• 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

• 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

• My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

  Etta James

  Mother, Singers, Jazz

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