Etta James Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1938 - January 20, 2012

Topics

GirlI AmPeopleMeWaitChurch

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Jerry Saltz

WorkArtBetterSeeingMuseumGo

The idea of doing a children's film is different, but quite honestly I like doing anything - any genre. I've only made one Western, which was 'Three Amigos,' but I would love to make a serious Western. I'm just wide open.

John Landis

LoveChildrenDoingSeriousThree

I had sadness for breakfast.

Andy Milonakis

SadBreakfastSadnessHad

In my life, I'm just looking for that life of integrity that my father had. I have a good heart; I'm not a heartbreaker.

Johnathon Schaech

LifeGoodFatherIntegrityHeart

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Tom Wilson

LifeRoadPotholes

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

Rita Moreno

PeopleLearnYouKnowNowRight

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Mike Quigley

GoodDestinationYouInformationTwo

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

LifeThinkComedyFindingYouJoke

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

Boozoo Chavis

NothingLeaves

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

TodaySocietyBetterSurvivalBecome

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

PressureLivingCircumstancesWay

The Germans call him 'Our Shakespeare' because we love him.

Sebastian Koch

LoveHimCallBecauseGermansOur

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