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"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."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
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"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."
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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
"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
"When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?"
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
"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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"The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage."
Time
"It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them."
Artist
"I figured I could do It's A Man's Man's Man's World, because I believe it's the truth."
Truth
"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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