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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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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