Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRYScience and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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.
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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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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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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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 rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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