He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRYA song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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