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?”
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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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