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.
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Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.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.
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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.
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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
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I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
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I don't think I can carry it, but I am absolutely thrilled to be receiving this award, ... does not come to California very often.
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