Aretha Franklin Quotes
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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
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
Aretha Franklin
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
In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.
Aretha Franklin
My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.
Aretha Franklin
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
Aretha Franklin
Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.
Aretha Franklin