Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRYAll 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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