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.
CHUCK BERRYLooking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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