Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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.
CHUCK BERRY