A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
CHUCK BERRYLooking 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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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