Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRYYou 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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