Little Richard Quotes

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

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 think that a man should be caring.

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

I've never seen the devil create music.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

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 washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

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.

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

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.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.