American - Musician | October 18, 1926 - March 18, 2017
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.
Chuck Berry
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Elvis' songs will always be there, and I hope mine will be after I'm gone.
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I don't want the bottom, so I have to sacrifice the top.
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Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.
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My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.
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Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.
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I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.
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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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Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.
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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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I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who really had it hard. In our house, we had food on the table. We were doing well compared to many. So I concentrated on this fun and frolic, these novelties.
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In the Fifties, there were certain places we couldn't ride on the bus, and now there is a possibility of a black man being in the White House. You have to feel good about it.
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