Little Richard Quotes
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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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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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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 saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.
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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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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.
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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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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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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 also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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I think that a man should be caring.
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I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
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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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I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
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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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But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.
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No, I've never truly been a minister.
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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.