My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy. Etta James More Quotes by Etta James More Quotes From Etta James 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 The two things you can't fake are good food and good music Etta James good-food fake two When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life. Etta James singing-the-blues singing 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 people thinking What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries. Etta James somewhere-else worry forget At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song. Etta James music song love 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 rhythm-and-blues rocks country When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems. Etta James smile worry people 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 When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing. Etta James feel-good hurt feelings I want a Sunday kind of love Etta James sunday night past 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 fake musical song 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 waiting forever song I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. Etta James should-have gone long I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be. Etta James bourgeois persons 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 long-ago song way In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going. Etta James rage way The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage. Etta James truly-happy stage feels See, I don't like places where people can't dance - don't like clubs or theatres where a bunch of bourgeois people sit around tip, tip, tipping their fingers. Etta James dance inspirational people People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. Etta James phony people
