Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Little Richard - Page 2

I got a girl named Bony Maronie, she's as skinny as a stick of macaroni.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

I saw Uncle John with Long Tall Sally, he saw Aunt Mary coming and he ducked back in the alley.

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

We're gonna have some fun tonight.

I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

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!

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

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.

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves.

My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind of music is demonic. ... A lot of the beats in music today are taken from voodoo, from the voodoo drums. If you study music in rhythms, like I have, you'll see that is true. I believe that kind of music is driving people from Christ. It is contagious

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.