I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYI’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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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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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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