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 BERRYRock is my child and my grandfather.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
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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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He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
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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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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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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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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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.
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