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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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