Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYThey’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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