Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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