Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRYEverything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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