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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
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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.
Etta James
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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
Etta James
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My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself.
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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.
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I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth.
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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.
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I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
Etta James
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At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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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.
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Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
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Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.
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