Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
ARETHA FRANKLINBetter friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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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 love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for 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’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
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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 saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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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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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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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’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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