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.
ARETHA FRANKLINI’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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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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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Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.
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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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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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I’m never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
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Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.
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I’m a big woman. I need big hair.
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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
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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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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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Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it 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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