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Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Aretha Franklin

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Aretha Franklin
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: March 25
Died: 2018
Died: August 16
Pianist
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Singer
Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Aretha Louise Franklin
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Music

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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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I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey - like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.
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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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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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Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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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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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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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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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 sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
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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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On the sly, scoping for love.
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I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
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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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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
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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 know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
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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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