All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRYHe never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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