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 BERRYMusic is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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