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I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
Little Richard
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Little Richard
Age: 87 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 5
Died: 2020
Died: May 9
Musician
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Macon
Georgia
Richard Wayne Penniman
Richard
Richard Penniman
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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 let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.
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I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.
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I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
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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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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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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 just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
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God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.
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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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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.
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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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That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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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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I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.
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I've never seen the devil create music.
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