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Little Richard [1932-0] American

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Musician

Little Richard is an American musician, singer and songwriter.
An influential figure in popular music and culture for more than six decades, Little Richard's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s, when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship laid the foundation for rock and roll.

Strength, Women

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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.		101
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.		102
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.		103
But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.		104
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.	Women	105
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.		106
I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.	Strength	107
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.		108
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.		109
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.		110
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.		111
I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.		112
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.		113
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?		114
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.		115
To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.		116
God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.		117
Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.		118
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.		119
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.		120
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.		121
But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.		122
God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.		123
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.		124
I thank God for making me a man.		125
I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.		126
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.		201
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.		202
I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.		203
I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.		204
I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.		205
I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.		206
I love God, and I'm a follower.		207
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.		208
I think that a man should be caring.		209
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.		210
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.		211
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.		212
Some situations you cause yourself.		213
It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.		214
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.		215
I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.		216
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.		217
And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.		218
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.		219
And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.		220
But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.		221
I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.		222
I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.		223
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.		224
I was always my own person.		225
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.		226
I'm here to sing.		301
I've never seen the devil create music.		302
Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.		303
No, I've never truly been a minister.		304
Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.		305
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.		306

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