98 Quotes by Etta James

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight

The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president, he might be yours, he ain't my president. You know that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's gonna get her a- whipped. The great Beyoncé But I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day singing my song that I've been singing forever.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

I figured I could do ‘It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World,’ because I believe it’s the truth.