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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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"Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you."
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"The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing."
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"Love is a dance."
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"Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way."
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"No sane man will dance."
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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
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"Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts."
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"We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
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"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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"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."
Truth
"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
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
People
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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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"What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries."
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