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I call my music the healing music … It makes the blind feel that they can see, the lame feel that they can walk, the deaf and dumb that they can hear and talk.

— Little Richard

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His rhythm is the only one I can sing my songs to.

The Beatles are just a phenomenon; everything that the people say they are, they are. They're great. ... Their music is just melodious.

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

The Life and Times of Little Richard : The Authorized Biography (2003)

"Tutti Frutti", co-written with Dorothy LaBostrie and Joe Lubin · Performance with lyrics

Here's Little Richard (1957)

I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.

Yesterdays : Popular Song in America (1979)

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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