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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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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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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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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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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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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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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