Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRYYou know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.
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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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You don’t just go to the studio and say, ‘I’m going to write a hit.’ It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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