Bo Diddley: Self
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Quotes
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Bo Diddley : There was a bad omen hangin' there when the thing became separated. It became seperated. R&B became what we was doin' and Rock 'n' Roll became what the white kids was doin'.
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Bo Diddley : Money. You know, I'd sit up all night looking at that contract. You know, trying to figure out how I was going to make any money out of - two - two
Chuck Berry : No, half-a-cent per record.
Bo Diddley : Half-a-cent per record.
Little Richard : We had to sell two records to make a penny.
Bo Diddley : Right!
Chuck Berry : A record cost 59 cents, didn't it?
Bo Diddley , Little Richard : Yeah!
Chuck Berry : Then, there were 58 other pennies going somewhere.
Little Richard : Oh, boy.
Chuck Berry : Yeah, I majored in math. I was lookin' at the other 58 cents.
Little Richard : I majored in mouth!
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Bo Diddley : It wasn't anything that we was doin' so wrong, it was just that people was so slow to...
Little Richard : You were black!
Bo Diddley : Accept change.
Little Richard : You were black!
Chuck Berry : Tell him again. Will you tell him, man, again.
Little Richard : You was black and you they didn't want that black influence over their kids. You was a hero. And the kids was lookin' up to you. And they didn't want their kids...
Chuck Berry : What kids? What kids?
Little Richard : They didn't want the white kids lookin' up at this big 'ol greasy black guy...
Chuck Berry : Greasy!
Little Richard : Out of Georgia, out of Mississippi, or out of Chicago. They want their kids to see a smooth, white, blond, lookin' pretty, and on duty and lookin' rooty, you know. And so here's a black guy that's singin' and screamin' and beamin' and steamin' and they say, "No, no, no!"
