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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My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
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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.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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