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.
CHUCK BERRYBack in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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 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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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