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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.

Chuck Berry

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Growth Music Myself Paint Photograph Thinking
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
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY

Class Herself Room Teacher
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY

Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
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
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY

Bite Dog 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
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

Children Music Myself Value
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
CHUCK BERRY

Deep Fact Life Religion Science

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