Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRYSometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Could 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.
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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 ‘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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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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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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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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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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 is my child and my grandfather.
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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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