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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.

Chuck Berry

Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself
Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
CHUCK BERRY

Brand Make Up True Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
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
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY

Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Estate Growth Myself Old Pass Reality Time
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

Children Music Myself Value

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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