If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRYMusic 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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t just go to the studio and say, ‘I’m going to write a hit.’ It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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