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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Chuck Berry

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY

Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRY

Definition Music Short
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 BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
CHUCK BERRY

Myself See Thinking Yourself
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY

Day Deliver Music Myself Old
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRY

Judgement Myself Praise
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself

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