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.
CHUCK BERRYDescribe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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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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