Aretha Quotes
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I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
— Lena Horne
When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
— Whitney Houston
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
— Aretha Franklin
If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
— Aretha Franklin
I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.
— Aretha Franklin
...for every Aretha, there's a chorus of cat-stranglers.
— Bill Eisele
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
R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.
— Aretha Franklin
I love all music.
— Aretha Franklin
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
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
— Aretha Franklin
Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
— Aretha Franklin
The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
— Aretha Franklin
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.
— Aretha Franklin
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
— George Thorogood
I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
— Aretha Franklin
Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.
— Aretha Franklin
I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
— Aretha Franklin
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
— 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
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.
— Aretha Franklin
The people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
— 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
I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
— Aretha Franklin
When God loves you, what can be better than that?
— Aretha Franklin
The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
— Marianne Faithfull
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
Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.
— Aretha Franklin
Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
— Aretha Franklin
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
— Aretha Franklin
Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.
— Aretha Franklin
I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
— Aretha Franklin
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.'
— Aretha Franklin
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
— Aretha Franklin
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
— Aretha Franklin
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
— Aretha Franklin
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
— Aretha Franklin
I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
— Aretha Franklin
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
— Peabo Bryson
The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
— Aretha Franklin
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
— Aretha Franklin
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
— Jonny Lang
Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
— Whitney Houston
Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.
— Aretha Franklin
It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
— 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
I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
— Aretha Franklin
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
I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
— Aretha Franklin
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
— Aretha Franklin
I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
— Kara DioGuardi
I love to sing. It's just a natural thing for me.
— Aretha Franklin
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
— Aretha Franklin
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.
— Aretha Franklin
Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.
— Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin does not like me.
— Natalie Cole
On the sly, scoping for love.
— Aretha Franklin
