"Even as a little child, I’ve always had that comedian kind of attitude." ― Etta James Topic(s): Attitude More From Etta James "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." "Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that’s all I cared about." "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." More In Attitude "The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."― Wilhelm Wundt "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."― Norman Vincent Peale "I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health."― Jean Piaget