I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn’t paint.
CHUCK BERRYDon’t let the same dog bite you twice.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Maybellene, why can’t you be true?
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They’re drinkin’ home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin’ there got all shook up.
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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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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear 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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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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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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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.
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I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
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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; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
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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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