Best 51 quotes of Little Richard on MyQuotes

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

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

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 don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 love God, and I'm a follower.

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

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

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

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 think that a man should be caring.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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.

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.

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

We're gonna have some fun tonight.