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.
CHUCK BERRYYou 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
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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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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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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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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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