Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
CHUCK BERRYOf the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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.
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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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