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 BERRYI have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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 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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