Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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