I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYI would sing the blues if I had the blues.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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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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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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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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