Quotes by Etta James

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.

Doctors

Weight

Years

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.

Depressing

People

Thinking

All the things I used to like – cookies, ice cream, gumbo – I don’t like anymore.

Gumbo

Ice Cream

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.

Done

Men

Nerves

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Love

Music

Song

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Persons

Real

Country music has the great stories.

Country

Stories

Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Attitude

Children

Comedian

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

Alive

I Am Alive

Walks

I don’t care who’s playing. Even if it’s my favorite artist, I’m probably not gonna go and see him.

Artist

Care

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Country

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Dance

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Doctors

Done

Ends

Fake

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Feelings

Feels

Feet

Forever

Forget

Funeral

Generations

Girl

Glowing

Gone

Good Food

Gumbo

Healthy

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Hollywood

Home

Hurt

I Am Alive

Ice Cream

Inspirational

Jazz

Joy

Kids

Knows

Listening

Long

Long Ago

Lost

Love

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Quotes by Etta James

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.

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.

All the things I used to like – cookies, ice cream, gumbo – I don’t like anymore.

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.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

Country music has the great stories.

Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude.

I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.

I don’t care who’s playing. Even if it’s my favorite artist, I’m probably not gonna go and see him.

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