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.

Etta James
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  1. 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.

  2. Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

  3. Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby, ' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or...

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  5. Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

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