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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Chuck Berry

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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
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 BERRY

Acceptance Family Home Leaving Myself Pay
Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
CHUCK BERRY

Greatness Myself Willing
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY

Amazing Earn Intention Learning True Yourself
Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
CHUCK BERRY

Listening Myself People Writing
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
CHUCK BERRY

Class Herself Room Teacher
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
CHUCK BERRY

Himself Learning Play Reading Writing
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Estate Growth Myself Old Pass Reality Time
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY

Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
CHUCK BERRY

Madness Myself Prejudice Word
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
CHUCK BERRY

Day Deliver Music Myself Old

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