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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

Chuck Berry

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.
CHUCK BERRY

Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRY

Myself Satisfaction Time
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Sing
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY

Day Deliver Music Myself Old
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRY

Judgement Myself Praise
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY

Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search

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