All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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