188 Quotes by Aretha Franklin

On the sly, scoping for love.

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.

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

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

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

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.