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.
CHUCK BERRYThe 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.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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