He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRYPraise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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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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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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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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