Chuck Berry Quotes

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Chuck Berry

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 18, 1926

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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Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

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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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If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.

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Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

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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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What the heck is a king? I'm a cog in the wheel.

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In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.

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I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.

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That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

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I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.

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Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

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There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

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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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I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

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My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

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One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.

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People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'.

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Had I been pushed like Colonel Parker pushed Elvis, had I been a white boy like Elvis, sure, it would have been different.

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That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.

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