My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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