Chuck Berry Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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#6. 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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#7. He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

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#8. 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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#9. 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?"

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#10. Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.

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#11. Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

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#12. All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

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#13. 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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#14. I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

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#15. I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

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#16. Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

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#17. 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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#18. 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.

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#19. It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

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#20. They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

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#21. 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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#22. You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,

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#26. Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

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#30. It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues ... It's called rock now.

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#31. Maybellene, why can't you be true?

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#32. It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

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#33. My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

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#34. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

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#39. Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

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#40. dont let the same dog bite you twice

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