Love Quote by Little Richard

Little Richard’s “Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music” lands like a polite aside that quietly detonates a whole stack of genre and identity assumptions. Coming from the architect of rock and roll’s flamboyant, gospel-fired rebellion, the line reads less like a confession and more like a boundary-smudging flex: you thought you had him filed under one sound, one audience, one cultural lane. You don’t.

The “Plus” matters. It suggests he’s adding a detail to a story already in motion, a conversational tack-on that feels casual, even disarming. That casualness is the point. Little Richard isn’t mounting an argument about American music’s shared DNA; he’s treating it as self-evident, which is a stronger move. He normalizes the cross-pollination rather than pleading for it.

Dropping Tanya Tucker’s name sharpens the intent. Tucker, a tough-voiced country star who came up young and weathered public scrutiny, carries a kind of outlaw resilience that rhymes with Richard’s own career: sensational success, moral push-pull, reinvention. By aligning himself with her, he’s also aligning with a tradition often coded as white, rural, and conservative, insisting that the emotional and musical truths inside country belong to him, too.

The subtext is a reminder that “genre purity” is mostly marketing and gatekeeping. The context is an America where Black artists built the foundation of popular music but were routinely fenced out of certain stages. Richard’s line refuses the fence with a smile.