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I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.

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'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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Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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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 always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
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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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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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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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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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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 like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of 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 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'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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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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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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