Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRYRock is my child and my grandfather.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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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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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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You 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.
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Rock ‘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.
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