Rock is my child and my grandfather.
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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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If your playing basic music, its just rock.
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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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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.
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Up come a flat top, he was movin’ up with me.
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You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.
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Don’t bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I’m almost grown.
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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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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
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Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.
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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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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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Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
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A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.
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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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