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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.

Chuck Berry

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 BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Listening Lyrics Music Myself Song
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY

Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
CHUCK BERRY

Myself See Thinking Yourself
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY

Day Deliver Music Myself Old
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Estate Growth Myself Old Pass Reality Time
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRY

Judgement Myself Praise

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