Etta James Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

• At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

  Etta James

  Love, Music, Song

  Song: At Last, Album: At Last!

• 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, Knows

• I sing the songs that people need to hear.

  Etta James

  Song, People, Needs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

  Etta James

  Song, Long Ago, Way

  Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.264, Da Capo Press

• 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 had control over an entire album, start to finish.

  Etta James

  Song, Years, Tunes

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