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 BERRYI grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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.
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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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 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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