It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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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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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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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Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering “who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?”
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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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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