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I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.


Esperanza Spalding

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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
LAURA BRANIGAN People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.
JOSS STONE To me, R&B means Aretha Franklin, who is otherworldly.
CHRIS CORNELL I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
LENA HORNE The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
GEORGE THOROGOOD To me, she was as good a singer as Aretha Franklin in her own way, and completely timeless.
ELTON JOHN Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but ...
BETH DITTO We're a party band. We do mostly covers we play anything from Aretha Franklin to Jackson Brown to Pi...
BEN SOPRANZETTI Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally an...
TRACY CHAPMAN Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all th...
WHITNEY HOUSTON Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You ca...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles...
ESPERANZA SPALDING For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. I...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's peop...
ESPERANZA SPALDING You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn&#...
ESPERANZA SPALDING If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportuni...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
ESPERANZA SPALDING I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is t...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning b...
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ESPERANZA SPALDING There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see...
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ESPERANZA SPALDING I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
ESPERANZA SPALDING There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities tha...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a l...
ESPERANZA SPALDING There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lo...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
ESPERANZA SPALDING I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you kn...
ESPERANZA SPALDING It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throu...
ESPERANZA SPALDING My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s...
ESPERANZA SPALDING It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or do...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
ESPERANZA SPALDING As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche...
EDITH PIAF I don't want to die an old lady.
EDITH PIAF For me, singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
KELLY ROWLAND You have wonderful artists like Patty Labelle and Aretha Franklin that have opened up the door and b...
KELLY ROWLAND I decided one day to put on my tutu and jump on the coffee table and sing Aretha Franklin songs for ...
PHILLIPA SOO The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck ...
ERNIE ISLEY I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-s...
ELLE KING As a kid, I was listening to Aretha Franklin, Etta James and hip-hop as well as music my parents wer...
ALANIS MORISSETTE The message was if you weren't the thin, pretty model type, then you'd have to stay in the rhythm an...
HARRY BRYCE I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want...
RAINI RODRIGUEZ Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a...
WHITNEY HOUSTON When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's n...
LYKKE LI You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles,...
BOBBY WOMACK I think the most-played record in our house was the 'Big Chill' Soundtrack - so Smokey Robin...
CHET FAKER Podía ser una esperanza frágil, pero en ese momento era su mayor esperanza.
MARISSA MEYER Jack had an actor's control." Chuck Spalding
DAVID PIETRUSZA Aretha Franklin, she's just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers ...
CORIN TUCKER My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around ...
R. KELLY With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger,...
JORDIN SPARKS Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists...
D'ANGELO My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne W...
CLIVE DAVIS We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
JOHN GIBSON Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like...
BRODY ARMSTRONG Love fails, only when we fail to love. -J. Franklin.
J. FRANKLIN HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJA...
PHOEBE STONE On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emul...
PHILLIPA SOO I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i...
TRACY CHAPMAN I love Franklin Field; I'm hoping this protest will drawn national media coverage.
BEN SMITH I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
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 ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN My American audiences are pretty mixed. I get all sorts of people, old and young. It's nice.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, i...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Politics are not my arena. Music is.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Music changes, and I'm gonna change right along with it.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
ARETHA FRANKLIN People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.
ARETHA FRANKLIN When God loves you, what can be better than that?
ARETHA FRANKLIN I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
ARETHA FRANKLIN It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've don...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you rig...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift tha...
ARETHA FRANKLIN It's very satisfying. To perform the way you want to. And the way you know that you can.
ARETHA FRANKLIN You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Women absolutely deserve respect.
ARETHA FRANKLIN We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secula...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.
ARETHA FRANKLIN Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to ...
ARETHA FRANKLIN Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
ARETHA FRANKLIN I didn't think there was enough, by any means. And it was my feeling: 'How dare you come to Detroit,...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I still have another couple of duos that I'm working on, ... I really would like to finish that ASAP...
ARETHA FRANKLIN We were a little upset initially. Detroit is a city of music legends, and we thought it would be rem...
ARETHA FRANKLIN I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
ARETHA FRANKLIN

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