Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYMaybellene, why can’t you be true?
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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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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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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The 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.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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