Quotes By Little Richard

I love God, and I'm a follower.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 thank God for making me a man.

I've never seen the devil create music.

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.