All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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