Quotes by Etta James - Page 2

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 / Singer-Songwriter
American Culture
Country
Culture
Jazz
One Thing
Rhythm
Rhythm And Blues
Rocks
American
Music Jazz Country
Wanna
Gospel
Show
Blues
Rock
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
First Time
Song
Tunes
Years
Time Start Always
Album
Finish
Recording
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Great
Fake
Might
Musical
Musician
Song
Nothing
History Great Music
Songs
Behind
Them
History Music Great
Connect
How
Singer
Got
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Depressing
People
Thinking
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Ends
Knows
Song
Touched
Where Me Know
Begins
Me Know Where
Deepest
Hold
Laying
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Different
People
Two
Fish
Me Your People
Record
Neither
Nor
One Or Two
Shop
Rack
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Night
Teenager
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Every Night
Just One
Singers
Traveled
Johnny
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Dance
Chairs
Dare
They Said
Vulgar
Want
Chair
James
Just Be
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Cool
Space
Baby
Discipline
Jazz
Melody
Real
Right Place
Singing
Too Much
Oh
Blues
Leave
Pause
Sing
Took
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Cigarette
People
Performing
Years
I Am Me People
For The People
Wait
Grown
Lady
Little Girl
Smokin
Young Lady
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Forever
Singing
Song
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Forever
Song
Waiting
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