I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRYIf your playing basic music, its just rock.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
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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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