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Etta James Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“All this insanity has made me wonder whether craziness was in my blood.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: crazy, Insanity, craziness, Wonder, Think, blodd, inherent, Passion, Passionate
“I had two mothers, two childhoods, lived two different lives in two different cities. Maybe that's why I became two different people.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: mother, parent, Child, Children, Childhood, Person, Development, People, Living, Life, Experience, Growing Up
“I called myself "Etta James." It said "Etta James" on my records. Sometimes the emcee introduced me as "Peaches. Miss Etta James."”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: name, Personality, Identity, identification, Records, introduction
“Sounds weird, but I have memory flashes of being slipped into bureaus, where I'd pick up my little head and peek out to survey the scene. I've always been a peeker, eager to check out the world.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: Memory, flashes, dream, bureau, government, life, Childhood, Child, Memories, peek, curious, curiosity, world, explore
“I remember Mama poured me milk and tried to show me how to drink from a cup, but I wouldn't wait. I didn't want to be shown anything. I took the cup and spilled the milk all over me.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: mother, mama, Childhood, Childhood Memories, Memory, remember, Child, toddler, young, milk, parent, Patience, Hurry, Wait
“But in this life she was a light-brown-skinned beauty who wore short skirts and fishnet hose and platform shoes with ankle straps.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: beauty, Beautiful, Appearance, skin, brown, complexion, Color, dress, apparel, clothing, Shoes, hosiery, stockings, fish net, Feet
“I've tried to put the pieces together. I wish I could prove it by trotting out blood tests, but I can't. All I can do is tell you the story I believe, the one I've heard from people who were there and should know.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: pieces, explanation, Memory, Past, Childhood, Blood, test, Family, heritiage, Belief, unknown, Mystery
“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story of my life--no brakes.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: heart, talk, hospital, Birth, Experience, Life, Story, Life Story, speedy, brakes, Fast
“You might look at me and say, Hey, there's a happy kid; a little hyper, a little rambunctious, but happy all the same. And so there I was, humming along, when suddenly Dorothy would pop up out of the blue, snatch me up, and take me along on one of her lost weekends.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: Happy, Hyper, kid, Child, childhood home, rambunctious, Childhood, Childhood Memories, Memory, remember, Fun, enjoy
“Cozie and James also noticed my musical nature when I was still an infant. They said I was fixated on jukeboxes. I'd toddle over and point to one particular song -- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, a hot boogie-woogie instrumental. I'd holler until someone put a nickel in the box and played that number. Then with my little ringlets bouncing up on the top of my head, I'd do a dance and sing along with baby sounds. The second it was through, I'd start crying until someone played the damn thing again. And again. And again.”
— Etta James, Rage to survive: the Etta James story
Tagged: Music, Musical, Nature, Personality, like, rhythm, Child, Childhood, Baby, young, toddler, jukebox, Memory, Memories, Childhood Memories
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