Little Richard Quotes
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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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 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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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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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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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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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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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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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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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 very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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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 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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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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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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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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I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
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I call my music the healing music… It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.
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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 don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.