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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“I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness". Book by Neil Strauss, March 15, 2011.
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“Don't let the same dog bite you twice.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
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“It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.”
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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”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.
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“Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.”
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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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“Rock is my child and my grandfather.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 90" by Ralph Ellis, Todd Leopold, Tony Marco, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2017.
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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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“You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.”
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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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“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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“Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.”
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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.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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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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“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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“Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : 1956 'Roll over Beethoven'.
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“Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.”
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“My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.”
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“I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?”
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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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“It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.”
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“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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“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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“He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : Song: Johnny B. Goode
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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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“The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.”
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“Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,”
-- Chuck BerrySource : Song: School Days
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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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“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.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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“Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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“Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.”
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“Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.”
-- Chuck BerrySource : "Chuck Berry: Music legend given rock 'n' roll sendoff", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2017.
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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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“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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“All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar...”
-- Chuck Berry
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