Charles White > Quotes

“In the days of the Alan Freed package shows he had so resented being forced to go on before Chuck Berry in Berry’s home city of St. Louis that he played thirty minutes of viciously hard Rock ’n’Roll, then took out a can of lighter fuel, poured it on the piano, and put a match to it, telling the stage crew as he stomped off, “I’d like to see any son-of-a-bitch follow that.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography

“If you’re in it to do a job and to help, money or no money, that’s all there is. And that’s what I wanted to do and that’s what I did do. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God’s bouquet, and through music we become one.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography

“I gave a message in song to help people—to help men, to help women, to help young boys, young girls, to know the way. There was always that little beam of light, of love.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography

“The blues are beautiful. It’s a distillation of black America. It’s a cultural heart. It says so much for Afro-Americans, North American Afro people. And it must have something, ’cos it swept the world in many forms, including country-and-western, which I love.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography

“Rock music has become a universal language which I hope will eventually become a positive factor in uniting mankind and saving this tiny magnificent planet for us all.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography

“Richard opened the door. He brought the races together. When I first went on the road there were many segregated audiences. With Richard, although they still had the audiences segregated in the building, they were there together. And most times, before the end of the night, they would all be mixed together.”
― Charles White, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography