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I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.

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Little Richard
Age: 87 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 5
Died: 2020
Died: May 9
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Macon
Georgia
Richard Wayne Penniman
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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.
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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.
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I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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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!
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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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.
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I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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No, I've never truly been a minister.
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