Charles White

“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