I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYDescribe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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