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 BERRYThey’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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 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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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