Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
ARETHA FRANKLINAs 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.
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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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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I don’t feel one’s personal medical condition is everybody’s business. It just isn’t something you advertise, and it’s not open to discussion.
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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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