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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
In some ways, it's my rage that keeps me going,
— Etta James
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
Country music has the great stories.
— Etta James
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
We fit together better than James with Etta.
— Jasmine Sandozz
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
— Etta James
I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
— Etta James
It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
— Alexandra Bracken
It feels so good to be happy.
— Etta James
Gwen," Etta said, "I don't know what in the kingdom you were thinking when you told us to pack our stuff-you know we ain't got no stuff.
— Michael J. Sullivan
Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
— Deanna Lynn Sletten
You do have a choice, you know," Etta told her after a moment. "There is always a choice.
— Alexandra Bracken
The nice thing about life," said Miss Etta, "is you never know when there's going to be a party.
— Earl Hamner Jr.
The pain bursts through Etta like caffeine,
— Emma Hooper
I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.
— Etta James
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
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
— Etta James
I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.
— Etta James
His presence was larger-than-life, bigger even than his physical body.
— Alexandra Bracken
I want you to remember that - it's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises." Etta
— Alexandra Bracken
I sing the songs that people need to hear.
— Etta James
I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
— Etta James
My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
— Etta James
I took back my life.
— Etta James
I don't need a protector," Etta said. "I need a partner.
— Alexandra Bracken
For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I thing they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
— Alexandra Bracken
I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight — Etta James
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight — Etta James
He would not surrender to the disaster of loving her.
— Alexandra Bracken
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.
— Etta James
The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
— Sabrina Carpenter
When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
— Etta James
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
— Etta James
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
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
Well," Etta said weakly, "she's always told me a good challenge builds character."
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly. — Alexandra Bracken
"Then we'll have an excess of it," he said dryly. — Alexandra Bracken
To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
— Etta James
I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
— Jennifer Holliday
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
Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.
— Etta James
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.
— Etta James
Their thoughts did head in the same direction often enough, but there were times when Etta remained as mysterious as the stars in the sky.
— Alexandra Bracken
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
She didn't need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.
— Alexandra Bracken
The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.
— 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.
— Etta James
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
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
— Etta James
Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you.
— Emma Hooper