"My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that."
"I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing."
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Source: Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.264, Da Capo Press
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