He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRYA 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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