Chuck Berry Quotes
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.
Berry, Chuck. "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry." Interview by Cal Fussman. Esquire, Jan. 2003.
The “gentleman” was Congressman Benjamin Butler former Civil War General, and Governor of Massachusetts who had a corrupt history of looting wealthy Louisiana. Brady had been a very successful photographer and had invested over $100,000 in photographing the civil war with the expectation that when the war was won, the government would buy his collection. They did not and he was financially ruined and had to accept anything the government would offer. Butler arranged the purchase and got the $12,500 kickback which was legal in those days. He became one of the wealthy men of America. Brady died an alcoholic in poverty. Without the Brady photographs, the great Ken Burns PBS documentary of the Civil War could never have been made.
In the internecine warfare in the Iraq War many of the Iraqis who worked with and for the United States during the war, were threatened and many killed. Unlike the Ford Administration in the Vietnam War, which had resettled almost 200,000 Asians who had worked with America and were in danger of retaliation, the George W. Bush Administration would not allow the people who were loyal to United States forces in the war to immigrate to the U. S.
Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.
