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 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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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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