Little Richard Quotes

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• A-bop-bop-a-loom-op-a-lop-bop-boom.

  Little Richard

  Bops, Explanation

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

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Architect

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

  Little Richard

  Kings, Queens, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Oct 06, 2016

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

  Little Richard

  Cost, Felt

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Fake People, Believe, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 03, 2016

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

  Little Richard

  Ships, Size, Wave

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• 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!

  Little Richard

  Hate, Ice, Trying

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Gay, Thoughtful, People

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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.

  Little Richard

  Believe, Rocks, People

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Dec 18, 2015

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

  Little Richard

  Taken, Greed, Soul

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

  Little Richard

  Thinking, Enough, Enough Love

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Light, People, Darkness

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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.

  Little Richard

  Kids, Rocks, People

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Believe, People, Darkness

  "The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography". Book by Charles White, 1984.

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

  Little Richard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Love Is, Bouquets, Language

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• 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!'

  Little Richard

  Ems, Bops, Greyhounds

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

  Little Richard

  Happy Friday, Ideas, Patterns

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• 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

  Little Richard

  Believe, Taken, Rocks

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• 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?

  Little Richard

  Beautiful, Song, Crazy

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Being Strong, Mother, Strong Women

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• God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

  Little Richard

  Selfish, Heart, Race

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 15, 2016

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

  Little Richard

  Men, Rocks, Giving

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• Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around
  every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

  Little Richard

  Years, Given, Thousand

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• 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.

  Little Richard

  Song, Boys, Night

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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