Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYMaybellene, why can’t you be true?
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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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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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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