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Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.

Chuck Berry

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Chuck Berry
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: October 18
Died: 2017
Died: March 18
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Restaurateur
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry
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Flat
Flats
Come
Movin

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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.
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Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
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Sometime we'll try and reach for things we know we each want and don't deserve.
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This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.
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