Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.
ARETHA FRANKLINI 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.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
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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 saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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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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Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.
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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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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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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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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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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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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?
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