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.
CHUCK BERRYPrejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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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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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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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.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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’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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