Aretha Franklin Quotes

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Aretha Franklin

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1942

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

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

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Aretha Franklin

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

Aretha Franklin

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Aretha Franklin

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

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

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

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

Aretha Franklin

I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.

Aretha Franklin

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

Aretha Franklin

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

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

Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

Aretha Franklin

The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.

Aretha Franklin

I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.

Aretha Franklin

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

Aretha Franklin

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.

Aretha Franklin

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

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