Actually I’m writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
CHUCK BERRYMusic is music; you can’t change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
More Chuck Berry Quotes
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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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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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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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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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Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
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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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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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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.
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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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Prejudice doesn’t make me mad. It just – I guess ‘pisses me off’ is the word.
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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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Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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