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 BERRYA 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up 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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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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