Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRYScience and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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