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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.

Chuck Berry

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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Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
CHUCK BERRY

Myself See Thinking Yourself
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Greatness Myself Willing
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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Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Gift Guitar Music Myself
They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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Cup Dance Drink
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Day Deliver Music Myself Old
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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Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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Easy Guitar Himself Ring
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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Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Brand Make Up True Yourself
Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Alone Growth Leaving Myself
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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Black Custom Intention Myself Tongue White
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Madness Myself Prejudice Word
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Listening Myself People Writing

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