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• 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.

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  Song, Boys, Night

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

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  People, Kind, Knows

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

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  Doors, Thank God, Lord

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• God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

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  Omniscient, Omnipotent

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

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  Fame, Reason, Lost

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• I don't think that you have to be effeminate to be sensitive.

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  Thinking, Sensitive

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• But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

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  Men, Greed, Pieces

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• 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.

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  Block, Rocks, Devil

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

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  Uncles, Aunt, Long

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Rhythm And Blues

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• It's hard to have a friend when your name's a household word.

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  Names, Household, Hard

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Complaining, Noses, Littles

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• I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

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  Alive, World, Want

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

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  Rocks, Fans, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Music, Rocks, Age

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• And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

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• 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.

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  Sister, Brother, Children

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• I've never seen the devil create music.

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  Devil

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Looks

  "When John Waters met Little Richard". Interview with John Waters, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2010.

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• I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

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  Men, Thinking, Having Strength

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

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  Girl, Skinny, Sticks

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

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  Hair, Clothes, Long

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• 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.

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  Way, Poverty, Brighter Days

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• No, I've never truly been a minister.

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  Ministers

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

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  Rocks, Guitar, Bass

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