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

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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. "

" I thank God for making me a man. "

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

" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "

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

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

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

" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "

" 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. "

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

" I've never seen the devil create music. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" No, I've never truly been a minister. "

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