Tag: Aretha Franklin
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I don’t do crazy things – I just don’t.
Aretha Franklin
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I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Aretha Franklin
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President Clinton, I sang at his post-inauguration party out in Maryland.
Aretha Franklin
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Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
Aretha Franklin
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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
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I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin
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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
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Don’t say Aretha is making a comeback, because I’ve never been away!
Aretha Franklin
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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
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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