He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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