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 BERRYHe could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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