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.
CHUCK BERRYIt’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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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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