Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”
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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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