Little Richard Quotes
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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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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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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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They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.
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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 tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
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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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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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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
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I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
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No, I've never truly been a minister.
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I think that a man should be caring.
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But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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I've never seen the devil create music.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.