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.
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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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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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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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