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 BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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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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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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