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" I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. "
Little Richard
Pattern
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Idea
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" Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music. "
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Country Music
Music
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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. "
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Doing
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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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Think
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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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Life
My Life
" 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. "
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Poverty
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" I'm here to sing. "
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Here
Sing
" God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. "
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He
Omnipotent
Present
" 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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Words
Never
Money
" I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs. "
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Felt
Costs
Did
" I only wore makeup when I went onstage. "
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Onstage
Wore
Only
" 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. "
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Way
Think
Me
" 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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Stand
Always
Boy
" I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "
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Man
Wanted
Be A Man
" 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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People
Rock
Say
" I was always my own person. "
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Always
Own
My Own
" I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. "
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Show
Business
Look
" I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive. "
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Think
Effeminate
You
" 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. "
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Believe
Grass
Know
" I think that a man should be caring. "
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Caring
I Think
Man
" 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. "
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Women
Mother
Woman
" I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. "
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Little
Package
Whole
" To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it. "
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True
Rock
Me
" But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. "
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Occupation
Rock
Roll
" And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. "
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Joy
Woman
Because
" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
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Rock And Roll
King
Rock
" And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own. "
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Get
Down
Doing
" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "
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Were
Singing
Singers
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Me
People
" If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man. "
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Life
My Life
Want