My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Music 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.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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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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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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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?”
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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