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.
CHUCK BERRYAll 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.
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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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’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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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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