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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.

Chuck Berry

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
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
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Myself Willing
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
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY

Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
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
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

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

Judgement Myself Praise
If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
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
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY

Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word

Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.

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