Great Quotes About Little Richard

Etta James : "He was the biggest of them all. And he knew it...he wanted everyone to call him King Richard."

Paul McCartney: "I love his voice and I always wanted to sing like him."

Mick Jagger: "Little Richard is the originator and my first idol."

Jimi Hendrix: "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice."


Smokey Robinson: "Little Richard is the beginning of rock and roll."

Rod Stewart: "The first rock and roll record I listen to was The Girl Can't Help It by Little Richard."

Paul Simon: "When I was in high school I wanted to be like Little Richard."

Keith Richards: "The most exciting moment of my life was appearing on the same stage as Little Richard."

Elton John: "Little Richard's records were the best rock and roll records."

Michael Jackson: "James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people."

Quincy Jones: "Little Richard was not only a giant but a pioneer of the so-called rock and roll music industry."

David Bowie: "After hearing Little Richard on record, I bought a saxophone and came into the music business. Little Richard was my inspiration."

Wilson Pickett: "Little Richard is the architect of rock and roll."

Pat Boone: "No one has been imitated more than Little Richard."

Little Richard Quotes

"I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life."

"Elvis may be the king of rock and roll, but I am the queen."

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

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

"Rock and roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt."




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

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

"He was an integrator, Elvis was a blessing. They wouldn't let black music through. He opened the door for black music."

"I gave the Beatles their first tour - I took them to Hamburg before they ever made a record. I gave Mick Jagger his first tour in this country. James Brown was with me. I put Joe Tex in business."

"The grass may be greener on the other side but it's just as hard to cut."

"It's not the size of the ship; it's the size of the waves."

Barbra Streisand Quotes

"I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn."

"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress."

"There is nothing more important in life than love."

"I can take any truth; just don't lie to me."



"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman."

"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

"Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society."

"My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough."

"Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out."

"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong."

"When I sing, people shut up."

Great Quotes About Chuck Berry

John Lennon: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry."

Bob Seger: "All of Chuck's children are out there playing his licks."

Anthony Kiedis: "Chuck Berry is a musical scientist who discovered a cure for the blues."

Joan Jett: "The epitome of what it is to be a rock and roll guitar player, songwriter and singer."

Eric Burdon: "I learned more from Chuck Berry about America than I could have from the U.S. Information Service in London."

Joe Cocker: "Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis...you know in the 60's."

Keith Richards: "You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern."

Johnny Ramone: "I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I like Chuck Berry."

Ronnie Wood: "I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles."

Chuck D: "I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zepplins and Bostons and Peter Framptons.

Stevie Wonder: "There's only one true king of rock and roll. His name is Chuck Berry."

Chuck Berry Quotes

"I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint."

"Rock is my child and my grandfather."

"I was going to be famous if it killed me."

"Praise don't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself."

"I would sing the blues if I had the blues."

"I've always liked words. I even like some words that aren't in the dictionary."

"Play the songs they want to hear. That makes them feel they're getting what they came for."

"I wouldn't buy one of my records to save my life."


"Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or will be."

"A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics."

"Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two."

Great Quotes From Robert Smith Of The Cure

"If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you."

"I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me."

"Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist."

"I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston."

"I have never like Morrissey, and I still don't."


"I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made."

"Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years."

"I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap."

"My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible."

"I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop."

"No, come to think of it, I don't think the cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to."

Bonnie Raitt Quotes

"I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters."

"I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star."

"I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

"One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful."

"My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad."

"The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes."

"I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me."

"Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life."

"I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist."

"I have a really full life, both within music and outside it."

Joan Baez Quotes

"Someone had to change the world, And obviously I was the one for the job."

"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war."

"Action is the antidote to despair."

"I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins."

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"The era in which I came on the scene was a ten year period of exceptional talent. I mean, nobody could top Dylan; they've been trying for years. Nobody can really top John Lennon."

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now."

"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."

Great Quotes About Woodstock

Wavy Gravy: "Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand."

Richie Havens: "Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration."

Grace Slick: "It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big."

Wavy Gravy: "There's always a little bit of heaven in a disaster area."

Edgar Winter: "But  when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way."

Johnny Rivers: "Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick."

John Fogerty: "We were ready to rock out and we waited and waited and finally it was our turn...there were a half million people asleep."

Joan Baez: "I knew I was singing to a city."

Wavy Gravy: "We must be in heaven, man!"