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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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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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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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
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Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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My heart is still there in gospel music. It never left . . . I'm gonna make a gospel record and tell Jesus I cannot bear these burdens alone.
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