Etta James
I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.Collection: Song
The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.Collection: Music
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.Collection: Love
The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.Collection: Stage
I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.Collection: Should Have
You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.Collection: Song
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.Collection: People
My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Country
You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.Collection: Song
I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.Collection: Believe
When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.Collection: Home