Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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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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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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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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