I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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