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
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.
music rocks age
I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
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!'
children attention shy
I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.
names kind call-me
I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.
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.
player guitar rocks
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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.