Top 75 Little Richard Quotes

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

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

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

I’ve never seen the devil create music.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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.

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

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

I’m here to sing.

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

No, I’ve never truly been a minister.

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

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

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

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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.

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 only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I love God, and I’m a follower.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I love God, and I’m a follower.

Some situations you cause yourself.

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’ve never seen the devil create music.

I think that a man should be caring.

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

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

I think that a man should be caring.

I’m here to sing.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

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

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

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

I thank God for making me a man.

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.

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 was always my own person.

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 thank God for making me a man.

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