My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRYHe could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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You 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.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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