Little Richard Quotes

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Little Richard

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 5, 1932

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

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I was always my own person.

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

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

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

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No, I've never truly been a minister.

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Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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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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Some situations you cause yourself.

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

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

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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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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'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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I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

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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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