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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.
Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin
Age: 76 †
Born: 1942
Born: March 25
Died: 2018
Died: August 16
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
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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 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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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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I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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I sing to the realists people who accept it like it is.
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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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On the sly, scoping for love.
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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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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
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