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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.

Chuck Berry

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRY

Change Music Rock Yourself
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
CHUCK BERRY

Cafe Day Drive Hard Night Search
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
CHUCK BERRY

Myself See Thinking Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Dance Music Myself Rock Roll Yourself
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Easy Guitar Himself Ring
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRY

Myself Satisfaction Time
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
CHUCK BERRY

Alone Growth Leaving Myself

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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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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