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CHUCK BERRYCould 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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 is my child and my grandfather.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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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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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’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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