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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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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."
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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."
Mother
"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
"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."
Time
"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."
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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."
History
"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
"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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"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."
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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."
Feelings
"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."
Music
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