Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
ARETHA FRANKLINI know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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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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I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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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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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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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 sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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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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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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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I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for 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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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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