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.
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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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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