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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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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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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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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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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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”
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