Top 78 Little Richard Quotes
#1. People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.
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#3. I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
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#4. But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.
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#5. Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
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#6. I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.
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#7. Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.
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#8. To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
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#9. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.
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#10. But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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#11. I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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#12. I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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#13. I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
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#14. And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
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#15. A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
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#16. Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.
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#19. I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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#20. I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.
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#22. I didn't know that homosexuality was wrong until I read it in the Bible.
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#23. It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
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#24. I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
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#25. I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
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#26. I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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#27. I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness ... that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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#29. But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
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#31. And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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#32. Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.
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#33. I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'
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#34. I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
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#35. Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
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#36. Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.
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#38. I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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#40. I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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#41. I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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#42. I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
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#43. God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.
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#44. I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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#45. I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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#46. I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
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#47. If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
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#48. And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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#49. I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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#50. I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.
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#51. I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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#52. That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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#54. I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
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#55. Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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#56. I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.
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#57. When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.
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#58. My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.
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#59. I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?
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#60. It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.
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#61. Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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#62. I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
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#63. A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
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#64. It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
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#66. God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
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#67. I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
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#68. I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
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#69. I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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#70. I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road ...
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#71. Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.
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#72. I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
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#74. If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
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#75. Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
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#76. God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
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#77. But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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#78. I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
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