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.
ARETHA FRANKLINI donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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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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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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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’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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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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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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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 love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
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