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I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.
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The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with that, I began to hear the blues. And then I began to hear Latin music. Each one left its mark.
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I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.
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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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Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.
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People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.
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Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.
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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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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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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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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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The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.
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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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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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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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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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If you're going to be mad, at least let the people know what you're mad about.
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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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If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.
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I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian.
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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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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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It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
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The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
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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.'
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
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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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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.
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