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?”
CHUCK BERRYPrejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance 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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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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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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