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 BERRYDon’t let the same dog bite you twice.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don’t know how mean she looks.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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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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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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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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Praise doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t judge myself.
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Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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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He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
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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.
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