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.
CHUCK BERRYThe 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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