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.
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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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?”
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