I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
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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I’ve been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.
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Yes, I’ve always been fashion conscious.
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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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Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
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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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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it’s sad and smiles when it’s happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin’ takes courage.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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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 donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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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 think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
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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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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.
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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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