Little Richard Quotes

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

Blues is a big part of rock and roll. The best rock and roll got its birth in the blues. You hear it in Little Richard and Chuck Berry.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

'Year Of The Tiger' definitely has much more of a blues-based vibe.

I loved Jimmy Reed, the chord changes, the lyrics.

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

To me, Sabbath was always JUSt a really heavy blues band. That s all we were. We just took those blues roots and made them heavier.

From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.