Etta James - Best Quotes

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 put in something real cool.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Author: Etta James

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries no problems.

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.

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

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 put in something real cool.

Johnny Guitar… just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

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