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.
ARETHA FRANKLINI’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
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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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The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
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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’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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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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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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Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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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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The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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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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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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