Aretha Franklin Quotes

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Aretha Franklin

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 25, 1942

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

Aretha Franklin

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Aretha Franklin

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

Aretha Franklin

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

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

Aretha Franklin

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

I love all music.

Aretha Franklin

Beyonce is a very hard-working woman. Astrologically, for whatever it's worth, she's a Virgo - like Michael Jackson, a hard worker.

Aretha Franklin

I don't do crazy things - I just don't.

Aretha Franklin

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

Aretha Franklin

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

As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.

Aretha Franklin

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

Aretha Franklin

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Aretha Franklin

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

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

Aretha Franklin

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

Aretha Franklin

As long as it's good music. I love all music. It's got to be constructed properly.

Aretha Franklin

Men don't like eating out of cans. And I don't like eating out of cans too much, either.

Aretha Franklin

I came up in gospel.

Aretha Franklin