Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRYAll were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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