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

~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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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

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

~Aretha Franklin

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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

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

~Aretha Franklin

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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

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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

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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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: March 25th, 1942

Died: August 16th, 2018

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