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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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.Etta James
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
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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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