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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
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Aretha Franklin
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: March 25
Died: 2018
Died: August 16
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Aretha Louise Franklin
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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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Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
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I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.
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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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I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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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.
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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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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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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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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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Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.
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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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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.
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I sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
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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.
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