Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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