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‟ To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.
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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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‟ 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.
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‟ 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?
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‟ That's where it begins and ends for me and these songs were the ones that touched me the deepest. It was like I was laying hold of some part of me that I didn't even know was there until I let it out.
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‟ My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
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‟ A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.
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