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 BERRYPraise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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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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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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