"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."

(Etta James, nome d'arte di Jamesetta Hawkins, soprannominata occasionalmente Miss Peaches, cantante; Los Angeles, 25 gennaio 1938 – Riverside, 20 gennaio 2012)