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 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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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