They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRYIf your playing basic music, its just rock.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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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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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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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