Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYAll 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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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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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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 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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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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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 ‘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 think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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