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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

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
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRY

Definition Music Short
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
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
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY

Amazing Earn Intention Learning True Yourself
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
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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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
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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Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
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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Myself Satisfaction Time
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Day Deliver Music Myself Old
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
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
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
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Brand Make Up True Yourself
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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Deep Fact Life Religion Science
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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Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
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
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Dance Music Myself Rock Roll Yourself
They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRY

Cup Dance Drink
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

Children Music Myself Value
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself

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