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.
ARETHA FRANKLINNow, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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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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The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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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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People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don’t let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.
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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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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.
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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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