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Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

— Jon Landau

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

— Natalie Cole

I was never an R&B artist. People coined me one, but that's because, especially if you're in the States, if you're black and you sing, then you're R&B.

— Kelis

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

— Babyface

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

— Peabo Bryson

I'm not a singer. I'm not an R&B singer. I'm an artist.

— Tory Lanez

I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.

— Ice T

✗Opposing Perspectives

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've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

— Jonny Lang

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

— Whitney Houston