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No, I've never truly been a minister.
Little Richard
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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
Richard
Richard Penniman
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer that's my livelihood, my occupation.
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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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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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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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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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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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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.
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I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
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I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
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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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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.
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But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.
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I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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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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God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
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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 am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
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And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.
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