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 BERRYThe 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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