Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRYCuriosity 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?”
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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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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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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