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 BERRYMy music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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