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" I think that a man should be caring. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen. "

" I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. "

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

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

" I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other. "

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

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

" Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. "

" I was always my own person. "

" Some situations you cause yourself. "

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

" It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word. "

" 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? "

" I'm here to sing. "

" 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. "

" Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. "

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

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