Etta James Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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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• 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

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• I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

  Etta James

  Mean, Today, Punk

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• 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

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• I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

  Etta James

  Crazy

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• Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

  Etta James

  Children, Attitude, Comedian

  "Etta James Says Beyonce Cracks Were A Joke", www.foxnews.com. February 6, 2009.

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• 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

  "Etta James: Still Singing Her Song". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. November 28, 2008.

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• I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.

  Etta James

  Kids, Wanted, Sloppy

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• All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.

  Etta James

  Ice Cream, Gumbo, Cookies

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

  Etta James

  Country, Teenager, Night

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• 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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• I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

  Etta James

  Mind, Records, Said

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• When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

  Etta James

  Girl, Years, People

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• 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

  "Etta James: 'I was like a punker ... I'd spit in a minute' - a classic interview from the vaults" by Cliff White, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2012.

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• 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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• 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

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• I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

  Etta James

  Believe, Men, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

  Etta James

  Home, Funeral, Unity

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• Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

  Etta James

  Real, Persons

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• Country music has the great stories.

  Etta James

  Country, Stories

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• Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

  Etta James

  Years, Sitting Down, Used

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