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 BERRYI would sing the blues if I had the blues.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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