I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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 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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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