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 FRANKLINI sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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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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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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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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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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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Yes, I’ve always been fashion conscious.
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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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