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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."

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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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Donna Grant

"Feelings have the divine attracting power. Feelings are the only link between you and everything around you."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs."

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Donna Grant

"And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized."

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Donna Grant

"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."

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Donna Grant

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

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Donna Grant

"My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them."

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Donna Grant

"Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise."

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Donna Grant

"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

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Donna Grant

"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."

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Donna Grant

"I've suffered too much to hide my feelings."

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Etta James
"And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve."

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Etta James
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."

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Etta James
"They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something."

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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."

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Etta James
"I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him."

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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."

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Etta James
"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind."

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Etta James
"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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Etta James
"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture."

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Etta James
"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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