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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Song, White, Black

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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

  Chuck Berry

  Leave Me Alone, Growth, Leaving Me

  Song: Almost Grown, 1959

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• There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

  Chuck Berry

  Kings, Style, Going Out

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

  Chuck Berry

  Car

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Games, Long, Way

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Writing, People, Like You

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Song, Yesterday

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Simple, Stuff, Sound

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Real, Responsibility, Long

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Beer, Cups

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• All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Guitar, Want

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Rocks, Band

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• Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

  Chuck Berry

  Writing, Order, Careers

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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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?"

  Chuck Berry

  Country, Black, Curiosity

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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

  Chuck Berry

  Controversy, Flats

  Song: You Can't Catch Me

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

  Chuck Berry

  Thinking, Honey, Bus

  Song: Nadine, Album: Definitive Collection

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

  Chuck Berry

  Song, Records, Ears

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

  Chuck Berry

  Play, Controversy

  Song: My Ding A Ling

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Home, Safety, Dating

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Fighting, Artist, Making Love

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Maybellene, why can't you be true?

  Chuck Berry

  Being True

  Song: Maybellene, Album: Definitive Collection

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• If your playing basic music, its just rock.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Ifs

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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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.

  Chuck Berry

  Night, Cafes, Hamburgers

  "Gulf storms strike chords in pop music". www.today.com. September 25, 2005.

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