Little Richard Rocks Quotations

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.

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

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.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

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

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.