Little Richard Quotes

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they’d pay attention to me.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

I’ve never seen the devil create music.

I’m very much a gentleman in what I do.

I’m here to sing.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn’t.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

I was always my own person.

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.

I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn’t.

I think that a man should be caring.

I think people who don’t believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn’t make?

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

I thank God for making me a man.

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.

I love God, and I’m a follower.