There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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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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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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