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

Little Richard

#Song Quotes #Boys Quotes #Night Quotes

“Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?”
“It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."”
“Humility is no substitute for a good personality.”
“The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.”
“For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them”
“Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.”
“The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.”

Source : Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.
“When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.”

Source : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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