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Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Enough Got Interest Proprietary Respect You

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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.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: American Buy Connect Course Go Home Hoped Kids Liked Me More Never Saw Some Studio Then Very Write

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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'.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Down Gettin Jeans People Pieces See Some Wanna Want

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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.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Berry Bullets Chuck Chuck Berry Come Easy Hard Like Maybe Out Playing Say Singing Songs Them They Say True Try Words

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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.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Also Been Casino Could Days Great Laziness Lots Machines My Soul Play Slot Songs Soul Take Write

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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.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Blue Blues Compared Concentrated Doing Enough Food Fun Had Hard House Like Many Muddy Our People Play Really Table Wanted Waters Well Were Who

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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.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: About Being Black Bus Certain Feel Feel Good Fifties Good House Man Now Places Possibility Ride Were White White House You

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Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Berry Chuck Chuck Berry Give Interviews

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I should have been a son of Einstein.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Been Einstein Should Son

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Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

~Chuck Berry

Topics: Black Eyes Only Remember See Through True View I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 18th, 1926

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