If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?
ARETHA FRANKLINI’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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 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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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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My 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.
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
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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 never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
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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 sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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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 a big woman. I need big hair.
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