My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRYThey’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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 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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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