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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.
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'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.
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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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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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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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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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On the sly, scoping for love.
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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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