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Little Richard quotes

Ocupation: Singer-songwriter

Life: b. December 5, 1932

Birthday: December 5

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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.

Topics: Gay, Thoughtful, People, Gay People

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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.

Topics: Being Strong, Mother, Strong Women, Strong Independent Women, Images Of Strong Women

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Topics: Taken, Greed, Soul, Greed Is Good, Greediness

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

Topics: Men, Rocks, Giving

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.

source: - FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 03, 2016

Topics: Fake People, Believe, Cutting, Greener, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Topics: Rocks, Guitar, Bass, Banging

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious

Topics: Taken, Believe, Rocks, Demonic, This I Believe

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

Topics: Years, Given, Thousand

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Having Strength

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.

Topics: Kids, Rocks, People, Voodoo, African Music

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Topics: Men, Greed, Pieces

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

source: - FaceBook post by Little Richard from Oct 06, 2016

Topics: Kings, Queens, Rocks

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

Topics: Architect

I've never seen the devil create music.

Topics: Devil

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

Topics: Omniscient

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

Topics: Rocks, Occupation, Singers

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.

Topics: Makeup, Attention, Stage

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Topics: Singing, Singers, Loud

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!'

Topics: Bops, Ems, Said, Washing Dishes, Greyhounds

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.

Topics: Believe, People, Darkness

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

Topics: Ships, Size, Wave

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.

Topics: Block, Rocks, Devil

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Topics: Names, Kind, Call Me

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.

Topics: Sister, Brother, Children

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

Topics: Children, Shy, Attention

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.

Topics: Complaining, Noses, Littles, Sniffing

I thank God for making me a man.

Topics: Men, Thank God

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Topics: Fame, Reason, Lost

We're gonna have some fun tonight.

Topics: Fun, Expression, Tonight

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

Topics: Bops, Explanation

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

Topics: Uncles, Aunt, Long

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.

Topics: People, Heaven, Pennies, Crosby, Rhythm And Blues

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

Topics: Song, Crowds, Reactions

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

Topics: People, Kind

To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

Topics: Rocks, Rock N Roll, Bottom

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

Topics: Player, Rocks, Guitar, Vocalist

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.

Topics: Thinking, Rocks, Down And, Tempo, Rock N Roll Music

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.

source: - FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 15, 2016

Topics: Selfish, Heart, Race

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

Topics: Alive, World, Want

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.

Topics: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Legends, Living Legends

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.

source: - "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

Topics: Song, Boys, Night, Railroad Tracks

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Topics: Thinking, Enough, Enough Love

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

Topics: Music, Rocks, Age

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

Topics: Piano, Good Times, Banging

I think that a man should be caring.

Topics: Caring, Men, Thinking

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

Topics: Thinking, Joy, Males

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

source: - FaceBook post by Little Richard from Dec 18, 2015

Topics: Believe, Rocks, People

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

Topics: Gentleman

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

Topics: Girl, Skinny, Sticks, Macaroni

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

Topics: Cost

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Topics: Men, Wanted

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Topics: Mother, Attention, Pay

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?

Topics: Beautiful, Song, Crazy

I love God, and I'm a follower.

Topics: Followers, God Love, I Love God

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Topics: Rocks, Fans, Rock N Roll

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

Topics: Country, Country Love, Plus

I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

Topics: Thinking, Sensitive

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Topics: Ministers

It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

Topics: Names, Household

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.

Topics: Way, Poverty, Brighter Days, Way To Success, Brighter

I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

Topics: Littles, Revival, Ministers, Evangelists, Packages

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

Topics: Hair, Clothes, Long, Flamboyant

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

Topics: Hypnosis, Looks, Shows

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

Topics: Makeup

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

Topics: Happy Friday, Ideas, Wildlife

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

Topics: Creating, Giving, Devil

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.

Topics: Light, People, Darkness

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!

Topics: Hate, Ice, Trying, Ice Skating

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.

Topics: Love Is, Bouquets, Language, Universal Language

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

Topics: Doors, Thank God, Lord

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Topics: Rocks, Rock N Roll, Turner

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.

Topics: Mean, Thinking, Expression

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