I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
ARETHA FRANKLINBeing 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.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.
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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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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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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I’m gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.
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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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We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.
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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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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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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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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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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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