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Browse top 19 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Etta James.

Favorite Etta James Quotes

1. "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
2. "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
3. "I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be." ~ Etta James
4. "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
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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
9. "All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore." ~ Etta James
10. "But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage." ~ Etta James
11. "I am so happy that I am alive and can walk." ~ Etta James
12. "I sing the songs that people need to hear." ~ Etta James
13. "I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances." ~ Etta James
14. "It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them." ~ Etta James
15. "My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!" ~ Etta James
16. "A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight." ~ Etta James
17. "Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person." ~ Etta James
18. "Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude." ~ Etta James
19. "I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him." ~ Etta James

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