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 BERRYI would sing the blues if I had the blues.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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