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.
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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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