Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRYBack in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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 I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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