Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
ARETHA FRANKLINMy heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I’m gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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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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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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If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
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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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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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