He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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 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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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