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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. "
Little Richard
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Doing
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" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "
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" But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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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 don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. "
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" I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other. "
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" Some situations you cause yourself. "
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" I'm very much a gentleman in what I do. "
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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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" I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more. "
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" 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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" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "
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