If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRYIf your playing basic music, its just rock.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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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Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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