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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
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Memphis
Tennessee
Aretha Louise Franklin
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Politics
Music

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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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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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When God loves you, what can be better than 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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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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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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Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
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On the sly, scoping for love.
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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'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 remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
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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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Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
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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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I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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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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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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