I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.
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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.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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