Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
ARETHA FRANKLINParents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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And I’ve been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I’m an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin’on sixty-five.
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I’m never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
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I’ve been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.
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I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
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Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.
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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.
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As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war … You have to learn when to let go. And that’s not easy.
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Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.
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