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" I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names. "
Little Richard
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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 always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man. "
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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 never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. "
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" 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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" I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business. "
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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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" 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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" Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. "
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" God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. "
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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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" God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men. "
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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. "
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" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "
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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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" I'm very much a gentleman in what I do. "
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" And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female. "
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" I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing. "
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Nothing
" But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. "
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" 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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" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "
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