Little Richard Quotes
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I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
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God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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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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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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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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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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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
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I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
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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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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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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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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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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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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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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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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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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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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.