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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Chuck Berry

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
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
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Myself See Thinking Yourself
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Empire Kingdom Style
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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Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
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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Budget Fast Feeling Imagination Myself Safety Yourself
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Children Music Myself Value
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Madness Myself Prejudice Word
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Ear Record Sing Song Yourself
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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Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
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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Estate Growth Myself Old Pass Reality Time
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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Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
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
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Listening Myself People Writing
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Change Music Rock 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.
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Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Day Deliver Music Myself Old
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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Class Herself Room Teacher
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Music Myself Sing
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
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
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
CHUCK BERRY

Deep Fact Life Religion Science
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

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