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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.

Chuck Berry

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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY

Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

Children Music Myself Value
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Dance Music Myself Rock Roll Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
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 BERRY

Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Listening Lyrics Music Myself Song
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY

Bite Dog Yourself
Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
CHUCK BERRY

Alone Growth Leaving Myself

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