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.
CHUCK BERRYRock ‘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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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 gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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