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 BERRYI think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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