Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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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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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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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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