188 Quotes by Aretha Franklin

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.

Music changes, and I’m gonna change right along with it.

People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don’t let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.

I love ‘Anne of Green Gables.’ I have for years. That’s one of my favourite things. She’s such a can-do kind of girl; that’s why I’m crazy about her.

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.’

I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach, or Carole Sager, or Stevie Wonder. Somebody like Smokey – like that. Otherwise, I choose to write alone.

I like Beyonce’s music – some of it, not all of it.

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I’m in so much trouble I don’t know what to do.