Quotes by Aretha Franklin - Page 3

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Confine
Particularly
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Artist
Be Confident
Might
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Artist
Might
Always Your Doing
Always Your Own
Going
Always
Own
Confident
Doing
You
Doing Always Your
Well
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
God
Happy
Music
Highest
Mean
Natural
Singers
Use
God Gift Me
Being
Possible
Degree
Gift
Singer
God Me Gift
Gave
Means
Highest Degree
Using
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Well, Babyface brings his savoir faire to every project. He's a very easy producer to work with, very detailed in listening to everything.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Easy
Brings
Detailed
Project
Producer
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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 / Singer
Jesus
Heart
Records
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Medical
Discussion
Feels
Condition
Advertise
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I just got into Mike Tyson. My security people kept saying, 'Haven't you seen him yet?' Well, I finally did, and he's got a real knockout punch.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Mike
Security
Tyson
Finally
Mike Tyson
Punch
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Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Comfortable
Important
Long
Please
Select
Wear
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I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Please
Somewhere
Retire
Sit
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Girl
Can Do
Crazy
Favourite
Green
Years
Anne
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
War
Letting Go
Parent
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I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Beyonce
Fantasia
Certainly
Chris
Chris Brown
Factor
Usher
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I am doing what I love to do, and you cannot beat that, especially when the audience appreciates what you prepare for them. It's very, very gratifying.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Audience
Love I Am Doing
Appreciates
Beat
Gratifying
Prepare
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Appreciate
Giving
People
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You have singers that are trained, and then you have natural singers: people that, in my opinion, were just born to sing. And hopefully, I am one of them.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Natural
Opinion
I Am People Born
In My Opinion
Sing
Trained
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I love Wal-Mart, and not just because my record is there. You can get some things there that you cannot find at Saks or Bergdorf's or other upscale stores.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Record
Wal-Mart
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My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Music
Dad
Famous
Mentor
Natural
Philadelphia
Singers
Love Music Famous
Love Music Dad
Gospel
Coach
Coached
Drove
Ward
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Artist
Thinking
Who I Am
Enough I Am Me
I Am Me Long
Woman
Enough Long Me
Contributions
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Cleveland
House
Records
Singing
Sound
James
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Aliens
Song
Soul
Alien
Experienced
Lend
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I loved going to church. I enjoyed being a part of the choir and just doing things in and around the church. But as a young girl, I certainly enjoyed watching and listening to my dad.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Choir
Church
Enjoyed
Certainly
Young Girl
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We didn't have music videos. You weren't an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Care
Concerts
Pace
Take Care
Trial And Error
Voice
Work Music Your
Craft
Error
Learn
Music Videos
Overnight
Sensation
Trial
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You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Good
Done
Forget
Good Things
Just One
One Thing
Should
Way
Wonderful
Person
Just
Because
Come
Thing
Good Way Person
Good Done Way
Thought
Cannot
Define
Good Way Done
Off
Good Way Good Things
Just One Thing
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Degrees
England
Together
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Inspirational
People
Simple
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People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don't get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It's minimal now.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Polite
Time People Real
Generally
Minimal
Responses
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I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
England
Fine
Flying
Writer
Adele
Singer
Meet
Occasion
Performer
Perhaps
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I go to the healthier foods that are less chemically treated. I am drinking lots of water to get rid of the toxins in my body. It's a natural flushing. Water flushes your system and is also very good for your skin.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Drinking
Good Water Your
Lots
Skin
Foods
Healthier
Rid
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Queens
Community
People
Singing
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Community
Singing
Social
Much
Being
Diva
Civic
Contributions
Queen
Well
Service
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I picked up some wonderful things just listening to other pianists that I appreciate, and that would be Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Horowitz, and Art Tatum. Those are the pianists I really enjoy and admire.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Admire
Appreciate
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Oscar
Picked
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Encouraging
Music
Uplifting
Certain
Doe
Happened
People
Strengthening
Years
Life Moment Your
Things
Life Music Moment
Life Music People
Very
Lot
Sure
Does
Back
Certain Things
Take
Moment
Right
Right Back
Transporting
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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.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Respect
Alone
Great Respect
Real
Wonder
Writing
Love Respect Great
Choose
Stevie
Writers
Otherwise
Producing
Rarely
Smokey
Stevie Wonder
Unless
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My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Church
Needed
Speak
Training
Upbringing
Vocalist
Attend
Certainly
Course
Gave
Ground
Lady
Provided
Regularly
Training Ground
Young Lady
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'Rocking With Leroy' used to come on when I would come in from school. It was a very, very big R&B broadcast of the day when I was a young girl. And I would come in and put my books down, lie down on the floor, and listen to 'Rocking With Leroy.'
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Girl
Books
Broadcast
Lie
Floor
Rocking
Young Girl
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I used to have hamburgers coming and going, especially when I was on the road. Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum. I am now opting for salads and just healthier lunches.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Fast Food
Hamburgers
Minimum
Love Food Keep
Love Food I Am
Coming
Fast
Healthier
Occasionally
Quarter
Salads
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I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Design
Break
Golden
Hollywood
Seems
Design Me People
Based
Behind
Line
Manager
One Or Two
Smith
Talked
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I think you have a lot of really good artists today. You have your Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj and the like. But our generation, the artists were stronger. You're talking about myself, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, The Temptations, The Four Tops.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Beyonce
Our Generation
Stronger
Talking
Wonder
Artists
Charles
Stevie
Generation
Good Artists
Nicki Minaj
Ray
Stevie Wonder
Temptations
Tops
Usher
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I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
New York
Church
Clubs
Environment
Jazz
Vanguard
Village
Perform
Brought
Club
Elite
Gate
Signed
York
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For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Christmas
Music Always Important
Sell
Mentioned
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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Audience
Columbia
Huge
Jazz
Playboy
Records
Wonderful
Great Music Me
Music Great Me
Critic
Won
Number
Feather
Label
Poll
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Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, 'You Send Me.' Irma, my older sister, and I heard 'You Send Me' on the radio while we were driving through the South one night. We had to stop the car. We got out and danced around the car out on the highway.
Aretha Franklin / Singer
Sister
Car
Driving
Heard
Huge
Influence
Left
Night
Older Sister
Radio
Secular
Had
Around
Gospel
Hit
Through
Cooke
Danced
Field
Older
Highway
Huge Influence
Point
Sam
Send
While
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