Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRYDescribe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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.
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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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.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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