Little Richard
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman, known by his stage name, Little Richard, is an American musician, singer and songwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 December 1932
CityMacon, GA
CountryUnited States of America
hypnosis looks shows
I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.
makeup
I only wore makeup when I went onstage.
love-is bouquets language
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.
gentleman
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
happy-friday ideas patterns
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
rock-and-roll rocks looks
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.
sister brother children
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.
ems bops dishes
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!'
noses littles stuff
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.
cost felt
I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.
business
I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.
bunch dime good gotten miss money rhythm
I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.
life
If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.
bedroom
My mother died, and I couldn't stand to look at her bedroom any more. I'd get sick. I've always been a momma's boy.