Quotes By Little Richard

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

I thank God for making me a man.

I've never seen the devil create music.

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

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

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

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

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

No, I've never truly been a minister.

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

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

Some situations you cause yourself.

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

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.

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

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

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

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

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

I'm here to sing.

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

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

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

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.

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?

I think that a man should be caring.

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.