It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRYThere have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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