American - Musician | January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012
All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.
Etta James
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I took back my life.
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I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.
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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.
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I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.
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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.
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Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
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My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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