All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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