All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRYMy music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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