Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
CHUCK BERRYMusic 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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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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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.
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