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.
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’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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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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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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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 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’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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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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Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
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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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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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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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I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
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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 you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody’s supposed to respect you?
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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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My faith always has been and always will be important to 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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Yes, I’ve always been fashion conscious.
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