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.
CHUCK BERRYRock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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 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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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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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