It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
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I sing the songs that people need to hear.Etta James
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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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.
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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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My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.
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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.
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