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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Chuck Berry

It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY

Amazing Earn Intention Learning True Yourself
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
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRY

Definition Music Short
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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Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Cup Dance Drink
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY

Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Bite Dog Yourself
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Gift Guitar Music Myself
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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Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
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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Deep Fact Life Religion Science
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRY

Myself Satisfaction Time
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Myself Willing
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
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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Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Listening Myself People Writing
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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Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
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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Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
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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Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Listening Lyrics Music Myself Song
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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Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
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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Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Move
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol

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