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.
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 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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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