Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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