Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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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.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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 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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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