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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with your own way with your own tune no matter who watches it."

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Donna Grant

"Dance with the waves of sea and sing with the sky,touch the sands with love and let your mind fly high."

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Donna Grant

"I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together."

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Donna Grant

"The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart."

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Donna Grant

"Dance as if you got lost in the mystery and beauty of life."

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Donna Grant

"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."

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Donna Grant

"In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff."

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Donna Grant

"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."

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Donna Grant

"The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance."

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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."

Mother

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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."

Music

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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."

Mother

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

Time

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Etta James
"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

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Etta James
"A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight."

Thought

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Etta James
"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."

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Etta James
"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

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Etta James
"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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Etta James
"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!"

Mother

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