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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.
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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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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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 sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
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If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
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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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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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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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I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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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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I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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On the sly, scoping for love.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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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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I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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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'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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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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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.
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