Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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I feel good, like it's party time, don't you know And it blew my mind when she smiled and said hello But it broke my heart when she told me it's time to go
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Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do
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Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of The Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back in the U.S.A.
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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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Milo Venus was a beautiful lass, She had the world in the palm of her hand. But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match, To get a brown eyed handsome man.
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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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Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell. Go, go, Go, Johnny go...
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Thunderbird saw the Jaguar gainin' speed And waved 'Goodbye, Jaguar' and pulled in the lead Jaguar said, 'You ain't won the race yet' And pulled back around the Bird like a sabre jet Sheriff's front bumper was a yard behind When the T-Bird, Jaguar crossed the line
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Well I looked at my watch, it was 9:54 I said, 'Dance ballerina girl, go go go!' And we rolled, reelin' and a rockin' We was reelin' and a rockin' Rollin' till the break of dawn
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Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
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She followed him around where he played his guitar Till he got so popular they made him a star Then she could only see him on a TV screen And hoped someday that he'd come back to New Orleans Everybody liked her and was knocking on wood But soon there came a baby for Lady B. Goode
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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.
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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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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever .
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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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It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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.
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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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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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When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.
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Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.