Little Richard Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I thank God for making me a man.”

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

“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.”