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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.

Chuck Berry

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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Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Listening Myself People Writing
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Gift Guitar Music Myself
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Greatness Myself Willing
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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Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Easy Guitar Himself Ring
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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Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
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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Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Definition Music Short
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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Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Music Play Rock Yourself
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Amazing Earn Intention Learning True Yourself
Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Brand Make Up True Yourself
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY

Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
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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Artist Fools Love Problem World
You don’t just go to the studio and say, ‘I’m going to write a hit.’ It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
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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Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
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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Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
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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Budget Fast Feeling Imagination Myself Safety Yourself
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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Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
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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Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Judgement Myself Praise
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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Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
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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Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
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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Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Children Music Myself Value

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