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It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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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More quotes by Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
I sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin
And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
Aretha Franklin
On the sly, scoping for love.
Aretha Franklin
R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
Aretha Franklin
When God loves you, what can be better than that?
Aretha Franklin
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
Aretha Franklin
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.
Aretha Franklin
If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
Aretha Franklin
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
