"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."

People, Hollywood

3

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."

Exlpore more People quotes

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

People, Revolution, Historians, Will

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

Elijah Wood, American Actor

People, Lying

"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan Statesman

People, Ability

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

Mark Pryor, American Politician

People, Body, Washington

"People are essentially red meat. They are."

Max Cannon, American Artist

People,

"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

People, Revolution

"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."

Tony Greig, South African Athlete

People,

"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."

Benjamin Hoff, American Author

People, Animals, Talk

"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."

George Smathers, American Politician

People, State, Treason, Will

"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

People, Acting, Empathy

Explore more quotes by Etta James

"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."

Truth, Man, World

"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."

Company, Mind

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

People, Songs

"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."

Dance, Want

"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."

Music, Songs

"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."

People, Hollywood

"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."

Woman, Women, Day

"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."

Time,

"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."

History, Music, Nothing, Songs

"Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang."

Now, Years