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Chuck Berry

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
CHUCK BERRY

Empire Kingdom Style
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself
Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
CHUCK BERRY

Judgement Myself Praise
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Easy Guitar Himself Ring
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Dance Music Myself Rock Roll Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Ignorance People Talk Yourself
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 BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRY

Ear Record Sing Song Yourself
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself

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