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.
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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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