Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYAll were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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