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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
  • 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
  • The term 'Sock it to me!' was a big, big thing in our neighborhood - all the kids were saying it.
    - Aretha Franklin
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
    - Aretha Franklin
  • 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