Etta James Messages
Best 30+ Etta James Messages, Quotes, and Images
The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.
I sing the songs that people need to hear.
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.
I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.
I am so happy that I am alive and can walk.
My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.
Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.
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But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
Never bored, so I'll never get old
Compromise is a word found only in the vocabulary of those who have no will to fight.
I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.