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" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
Little Richard
Rock And Roll
King
Rock
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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 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. "
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" I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms. "
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" But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. "
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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. "
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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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Night
" 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 Think
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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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" 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'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. "
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Little
Package
Whole
" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. "
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People
Did
Kinds
" No, I've never truly been a minister. "
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Truly
Never
" I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength. "
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Show
Woman
Man
" I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. "
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Long
Hair
Clothes
" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "
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Think
Effeminate
You
" 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
Stage
Doing
Attention
" But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money. "
Little Richard
Today
Sell
Money
" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "
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Wore
Only
" Some situations you cause yourself. "
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Yourself
Situations
You
" 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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God
Think
People
" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "
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Life
My Life
Want
" Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. "
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Me
Company
Attention
" God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. "
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He
Omnipotent
Present
" 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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Thought
Life
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" Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music. "
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Country Music
Music
Country
" My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy. "
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