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Women absolutely deserve respect.
- Aretha Franklin
#Absolutely
#Deserve
#Respect
#Women
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
- Aretha Franklin
#Arena
#Music
#Politics
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
- Aretha Franklin
#Always
#Faith
#Important
#Me
#Will
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
#Audience
#Beat
#Doing
#I Am
#Love
Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
- Aretha Franklin
#Falling
#Like
#Losing
#Love Is
#Love
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
#Business
#Discussion
#Feel
#Medical
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
#Car
#Influence
#Me
#Night
#Radio
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
#Day
#Great
#Jazz
#Me
#Music
Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
- Aretha Franklin
#Everybody
#Own
#Respect
#Way
#Would
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.
- Aretha Franklin
#Myself
#Things
#Way
#Wedding
#World
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
- Aretha Franklin
#Always
#Music
#Rock And Roll
#Rock
#Roll
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
#Brown
#Enjoy
#Got
#People
#Will
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
#Church
#Lady
#Me
#Spiritual
#Training
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
- Aretha Franklin
#Honor
#I Can
#Inspirational
#Job
#Person
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
#Behind
#Design
#Golden
#Me
#People
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
#Always
#Christmas
#Important
#Music
#Say
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
#Fast
#Food
#I Am
#Love
#Road
I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.
- Aretha Franklin
#Children
#People
#Society
#Three
#Women
In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.
- Aretha Franklin
#Better
#Know
#Music
#People
#Understand
People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
- Aretha Franklin
#Anything
#Appreciate
#Give
#People
#You
We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.
- Aretha Franklin
#Discrimination
#Long Way
#Long
#Lot
#Way
I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.
- Aretha Franklin
#Far
#More
#People
#Think
#World
When God loves you, what can be better than that?
- Aretha Franklin
#Better
#God
#Loves
#Than
#You
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
#Done
#Good Things
#Good
#Person
#Way
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
#Always
#Artist
#Doing
#Own
#Your
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
#Community
#Diva
#Queen
#Service
#Singing
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
- Aretha Franklin
#Black
#Man
#Respect
#White
#Woman
Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
- Aretha Franklin
#Along
#Change
#Gonna
#Music
#Right
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
#Back
#Life
#Moment
#Music
#People
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
#Gift
#God
#Happy
#Me
#Possible
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
#Dad
#Famous
#Love
#Me
#Music
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
#Chance
#Fine
#Meet
#She
#Strong
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
- Aretha Franklin
#Birthday
#Day
#Every Day
#Every
#Gift
Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
- Aretha Franklin
#Looking
#Sometimes
#You
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