They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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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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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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