Etta James Quotes

So, I couldn't care less Joe Manganiello's opinion on anything I have to say on Twitter.

You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

I'm not against anybody having gone [to Donald Trump's inauguration], but, for me, it was not the right place to be.

I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my song 'We're Not Gonna Take It' as recorded by my band Twisted Sister. There is almost nothing on which I agree with Paul Ryan, except perhaps the use of the P90X.

We didn't have any relationship at all with Trump.

Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.

I've never sold my publishing. I have 100% control of all of my publishing and that includes everything, every use of my songs.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

It's important to tell the artist's story. It's their song! And it's always more fun to write together with the artist!

Just because you sing songs about a certain feeling doesn't mean you have to go feeling that way forever. You can sing about that for the rest of your life, but that doesn't mean things aren't going to change in your own life.

[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

No one wants to wait for tracks to buffer or spend hours searching through a Web site to find their favorite song.

Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his mistress. He was never without an object, for when we cease to have an object, we become like an invalid in a hospital waiting for death.

In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

Selena Gomez. She’s a sweetheart, I met her a couple of times.

You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.