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 BERRYMusic is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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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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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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