Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRYCuriosity 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?”
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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