You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRYEverything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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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 would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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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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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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Rock ‘n’ roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let’s don’t leave out the economics. No way.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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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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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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