American - Musician | October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
Chuck Berry
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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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In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.
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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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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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My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.
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I've written songs on everything. Menus. Napkins. Little pieces of paper.
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Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.
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There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.
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I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.
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I have lots of ambition!
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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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