Aretha Franklin Quotes

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• I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
• 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…
• 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…
• The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
• Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
• And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
• I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
• 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.
• Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
• I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
• The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
• Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
• ...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
• Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.
• Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
• Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
• 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…
• R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.
• We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
• I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

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