I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRYDon’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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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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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 think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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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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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 have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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