I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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