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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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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On the sly, scoping for love.
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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 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.
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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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Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
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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 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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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'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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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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Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
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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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