I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRYMusic 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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