“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.”
“What happens is, when I perform, I’m somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I only sing what I feel - R&B, blues, gospel, and rock and roll, the music that came out of the South.”
“The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I’m on the stage.”
Happy 74th Birthday to legendary singer Jamesetta Hawkins, better known as Etta James (b. January 25, 1938)
live as if you’ll die today. ❞
How many there have been
That were just like you…
I do not need you…
Cause you’re just like them… ❞
When you try your best, but you don’t succeed.
When you get what you want, but not what you need.
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse…
And the tears come streaming down your face,
When you lose something you can’t replace.
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home…
And ignite your bones,
And I will try to fix you…
