Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRYMaybellene, why can’t you be true?
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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