- Dog
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- Big Band
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I feel it might be ill-mannered to try and top myself. The music I play is a ritual. Something that matters to people in a special way. I wouldn't want to interfere with that.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.
- Hear People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.
- Fast
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- Nov 07, 2020
My singing days have passed. My voice is gone. My throat is worn. And my lungs are going fast.
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to work at Kroger's. When the store opened, you were there. When I worked in an automobile plant, you punched in. So it showed if you were a minute late. If you have a paid job, you show up.
- Lots
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lots of ambition!
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt. Your span of feelings are going to go just as far one way as the other.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020