You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRYHe could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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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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Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn’t budge.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Music is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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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 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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