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As long as it's good music. I love all music. It's got to be constructed properly.
People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
Yeah, I want a job in Barack's Cabinet. How about a job, Mr. Obama? Please? Please?
He was definitely an original and a one-of-a-kind. Truly there was only one Prince.
Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.
It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.
Men don't like eating out of cans. And I don't like eating out of cans too much, either.
I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.
I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.
And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.
The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.
The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
John Legend is, in my opinion, classic. He is one of the best finds that has come along in a long time.
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
I can say that my big records and my success have been due to the backing which Atlantic have put behind me.
...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
Christmases past, my sister Carolyn and I - we'd been waiting for Santa all night. Nothing! Where is this man?
If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
Beyonce is very outspoken on feminist issues. So I think that's good. That could be brought to the forefront more.
Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
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.
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Many of my friends were there at Motown. The studio was only a few blocks from where my dad's home was, where we lived.
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.
Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.
I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'
I've met my share of guys who have insulted and assaulted my intelligence with their stories and games. I say hello and goodbye!
There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.
When I first started, I wore Ceil Chapman gowns. I've been wondering for years what happened to the Ceil Chapman line of clothing.
Beyonce is a very hard-working woman. Astrologically, for whatever it's worth, she's a Virgo - like Michael Jackson, a hard worker.
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.
I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Marion Williams. I've sang for Lionel Hampton.