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

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

" I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking. "

" I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm here to sing. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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