If your playing basic music, its just rock.
CHUCK BERRYCuriosity 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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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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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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Everything I wrote about wasn’t about me, but about the people listening.
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Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest who ever was, is or ever will be.
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Sometime we’ll try and reach for things we know we each want and don’t deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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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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It’s gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
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