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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.

Chuck Berry

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Production Representation Simplicity Symbol
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
CHUCK BERRY

Deep Fact Life Religion Science
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
CHUCK BERRY

Amazing Earn Intention Learning True Yourself
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
CHUCK BERRY

Gift Guitar Music Myself
It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Dance Music Myself Rock Roll Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Compensation Game Myself Obligation Time
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Play Rock Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Budget Fast Feeling Imagination Myself Safety Yourself
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.
CHUCK BERRY

Genre Music Myself Name Rhythm
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Composition People Studio Writing Yourself
Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
CHUCK BERRY

Alone Growth Leaving Myself
Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
CHUCK BERRY

Move
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
CHUCK BERRY

Artist Fools Love Problem World
Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRY

Best Career Live Momentum Myself Order Writing
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Estate Growth Myself Old Pass Reality Time
I’m a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it’s my grass. And that is satisfying.
CHUCK BERRY

Myself Satisfaction Time
Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
CHUCK BERRY

Deserve Myself Reach Time Try
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
CHUCK BERRY

Bite Dog Yourself
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
CHUCK BERRY

Alive Culture Important Music Ourselves Power Record Store
You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
CHUCK BERRY

Ear Record Sing Song Yourself
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Explanation Guitar Myself People Style
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY

Children Music Myself Value
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
CHUCK BERRY

Music Myself Sing
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.
CHUCK BERRY

Education Forget Health Important Knowledge Life Myself
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 BERRY

Character Deliver Live Music People Talk Yourself
Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
CHUCK BERRY

Brand Make Up True Yourself
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?”
CHUCK BERRY

Audience Black Curiosity Ourselves

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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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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