Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRYThere have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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 your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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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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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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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 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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