Aretha Franklin famous quotes

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

#Comeback

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Hair #Needs #Bigs

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Falling In Love #Love Is #Weight

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

#Class #Soul #Singers

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Past #Sugar #Needs

The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Jesus #Kindness #Giving

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Mean

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

#Music #Mean #Degrees

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Important

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

#Letting Go #War #Parent

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Men #Hell #He Man

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

#Queens #People #Community

I like Beyonce's music - some of it, not all of it.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Beyonce

Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
-- Aretha Franklin

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

#Children #Home #Parent

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

#House #Singing #Sound

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

#Love You #God Love #God Loves You

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

#Tired #Trying #Trying New Things

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

#Medical #Feels #Discussion

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

#Real #Writing #Wonder

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

#Girl #Crazy #Years

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

#Song #Jesus #Dad

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

#Community #Church #Detroit

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
-- Aretha Franklin

#People #Genius #Heard

Politics are not my arena. Music is.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Arena #Music Is

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

#Artist #Thinking #Who I Am

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

#Artist #Might #Be Confident

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

#Uplifting #Years #People

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Doors #Next #Stage

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
-- Aretha Franklin

#Music #People #Brown

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

#Leadership #Hurt #Growing Up

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

#Doors #Goes On #Cry

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

#Men #White #Black

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Thinking #Weight #Losing

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

#People #Realist #Accepting

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Music #Fads

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

#Fast Food #Quarters #Minimum

On the sly, scoping for love.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Expression #Sly

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Music #Rocks

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Inspiring

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

#Song #Soul #Aliens

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

#Liars #Low Self Esteem #Cheat

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Glasses #Broken #Ceilings

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

#White #Black #Singing

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?
-- Aretha Franklin

#Running #Philosophy #Thinking

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

#Inspirational #Simple #People

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Green #Trouble #Hornets

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Roots #Church #Natural

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious.
-- Aretha Franklin

#Fashion #Conscious