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?”
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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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 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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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.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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