All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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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You don’t just go to the studio and say, ‘I’m going to write a hit.’ It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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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 would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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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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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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