Little Richard Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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!'

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I love God, and I'm a follower.

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

I think that a man should be caring.

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.

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

No, I've never truly been a minister.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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