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 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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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.
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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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