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.
CHUCK BERRYRock is my child and my grandfather.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY






