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.
ARETHA FRANKLINWhen God loves you, what can be better than that?
More Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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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I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That’s the hardest thing more than anything else.
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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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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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The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
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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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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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People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don’t let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.
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I’ve never recorded anything I didn’t like.
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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It’s a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.
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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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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I’m using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I’m happy with that.
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