Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRYRock is my child and my grandfather.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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