I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRYYou don’t just go to the studio and say, ‘I’m going to write a hit.’ It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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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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