Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRYSometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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 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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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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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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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