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Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
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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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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Politics are not my arena. Music is.
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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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Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
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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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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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When God loves you, what can be better than that?
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I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
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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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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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R&B is not a fad it's the truth.
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I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage.
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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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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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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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I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
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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.
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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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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
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