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.
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
-
-
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY -
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY -
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY -
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY -
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY -
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
CHUCK BERRY -
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
CHUCK BERRY -
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.
CHUCK BERRY -
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 -
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY -
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRY -
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRY -
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.
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 -
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