Song Quotes by Etta James

Etta James

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

Love

Music

Song

Etta James

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

Needs

People

Song

Etta James

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

Long Ago

Song

Way

Etta James

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

Artist

Records

Song

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.

Feelings

Song

Sorry

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. I’d like to think I did that.

Mother

Music

Song

Etta James

That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even know was there until I let it out.

Ends

Knows

Song

Etta James

This is an album of songs that I’ve always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

Song

Tunes

Years

Etta James

You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

Fake

Musical

Song

Etta James

You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain’t my president, he might be yours, he ain’t my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song – she’s gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can’t stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol’ president day singing my song that I’ve been singing forever.

Forever

Song

Waiting

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Alive

Anxious

Artist

Attitude

Baby

Believe

Bourgeois

Care

Children

Comedian

Country

Crazy

Dance

Depressing

Different

Doctors

Done

Ends

Fake

Feel Good

Feelings

Feels

Feet

Forever

Forget

Funeral

Generations

Girl

Glowing

Gone

Good Food

Gumbo

Healthy

Holiday

Hollywood

Home

Hurt

I Am Alive

Ice Cream

Inspirational

Jazz

Joy

Kids

Knows

Listening

Long

Long Ago

Lost

Love

Mean

Men

Mind

Mother

Music

Musical

My Favorite

Needs

Nerves

Nice

Night

Past

People

Persons

Phony

Piano

Play

Pounds

Punk

Rage

Real

Records

Rhythm And Blues

Riding

Rocks

Said

Shops

Should Have

Singers

Singing

Singing The Blues

Sitting Down

Sloppy

Smile

Somewhere Else

Song

Sorry

Space

Stage

Stories

Sunday

Teenager

They Said

Thinking

Today

Truly Happy

Tunes

Two

Unity

Used

Waiting

Walks

Want

Wanted

Way

Weight

World

Worry

Years

Song Quotes by Etta James

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

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

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

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.

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. I’d like to think I did that.

That’s where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn’t even know was there until I let it out.

This is an album of songs that I’ve always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

You can’t fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that’s got nothing to do with it. It’s how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

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