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 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.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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I’ve always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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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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As 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.
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I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
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I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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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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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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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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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 sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
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