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Etta James

"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."

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"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person."

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

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"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

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"One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers."

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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

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"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again."

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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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"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 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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"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"
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"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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"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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"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
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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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"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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"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."
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