Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.
ARETHA FRANKLINI love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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R&B is not a fad; it’s the truth.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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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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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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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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Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
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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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I 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.
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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
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Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.
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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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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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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 donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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