Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRYHe could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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