Aretha Franklin Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Song, Soul, Aliens

  FaceBook post by Aretha Franklin from Aug 30, 2011

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• R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, Fads

  Aretha Franklin (1999). “Aretha: From These Roots”

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• I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

  Aretha Franklin

  Inspiring

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Letting Go, War, Parent

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Hurt, Twenties, Might

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• Politics are not my arena. Music is.

  Aretha Franklin

  Arena, Music Is

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• I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

  Aretha Franklin

  Doors, Next, Stage

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• Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Constant

  "Aretha Franklin on why she'll never stop singing". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. November 25, 2015.

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• I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.

  Aretha Franklin

  People, Genius, Heard

  "New Again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• On the sly, scoping for love.

  Aretha Franklin

  Expression, Sly

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• I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, Rocks, Felt

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• I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

  Aretha Franklin

  Thinking, Weight, Losing

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• Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

  Aretha Franklin

  Class, Soul, Singers

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• I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'

  Aretha Franklin

  Song, Jesus, Dad

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• I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

  Aretha Franklin

  Girl, Crazy, Years

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Roots, Church, Natural

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.

  Aretha Franklin

  Fashion, Conscious

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

  Aretha Franklin

  House, Singing, Sound

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Real, Writing, Wonder

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• I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

  Aretha Franklin

  Tired, Trying, Enjoy

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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.

  Aretha Franklin

  Medical, Feels, Discussion

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• Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

  Aretha Franklin

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Aretha Franklin Clarifies Whitney Houston Comments" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2012.

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• ...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, People, Brown

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• I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.

  Aretha Franklin

  Beyonce

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• You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Liars, Low Self Esteem, Cheat

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