Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy. 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 musicmothersong The two things you can't fake are good food and good music Etta James good-foodfaketwo When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life. Etta James singing-the-bluessinging 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 depressingpeoplethinking 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-elseworryforget At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song. Etta James musicsonglove 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-bluesrockscountry 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 smileworrypeople The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul. Etta James musicfeetjoy 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-goodhurtfeelings I want a Sunday kind of love Etta James sundaynightpast 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 fakemusicalsong 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 waitingforeversong 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-havegonelong I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be. Etta James bourgeoispersons 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-agosongway In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going. Etta James rageway 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-happystagefeels 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 danceinspirationalpeople People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. Etta James phonypeople
