Little Richard Quotes

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

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

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

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious

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

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

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

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

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

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?

A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

No, I've never truly been a minister.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

I thank God for making me a man.

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

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

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

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.

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.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

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

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

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

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

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.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

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.

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.

I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

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.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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

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.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

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

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

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

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

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.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.