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Etta James's Profile

Brief about Etta James: By info that we know Etta James was born at 1938-01-25. And also Etta James is American Musician.

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It feels so good to be happy.

Tags: Feels, Good, Happy

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

Tags: Artists, Original, Songs

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Tags: Generation, Older, Young

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Tags: Big, Food, Nice

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.

Tags: Feeling, Songs, Sorry

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

Tags: Holiday, Mother, Used

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Tags: After, Again, Used

Once you lose the weight, you're really anxious to eat healthy.

Tags: Healthy, Lose, Once

The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

Tags: Best, Happy, Time

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.

Tags: Country, Good, Music

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.

Tags: Country, Music, Rock

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.

Tags: Bad, Good, Hurt

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?

Tags: Girl, Old, Young

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

Tags: Mean, Mother, Real

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

Tags: Best, Mind, Said

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.

Tags: Cool, Put, Real

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.

Tags: Car, Time, Together

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!

Tags: Busy, Learned, Mother

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.

Tags: Fish, Place, Problem

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.

Tags: Dance, Places, Sit
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